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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...
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...
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...
In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...
very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...
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...
In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...
is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...
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...
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...
In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...
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...
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...
Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....
the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
This paper consists of nine pages and considers how violence is perpetuated by the gods in Thebiad by Status, Oedipus Rex by Sopho...
In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...