YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Demonic and Divine Powers in Oedipus by Sophocles
Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this paper examines a passage from the Greek tragedy in order to determine to what extent Oedipus portrays himself a...
This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...
city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...
he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...
someone, either an individual, or an organisations, to use property, and for one reason, or another, are not able to hold the lega...
have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...
concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
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tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...