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deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...

In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...