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evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

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

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

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

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

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...

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...

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

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...

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...

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

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...

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...

In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

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

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