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on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...
In seven pages this research paper discusses the various interpretations of this classic Greek tragedy including those of Sigmund ...
This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...
In 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In 5 pages this paper examines the uses of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony as it emphasizes the plot's paradox within the ...
content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...
In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...
biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...
In six pages this paper presents a structural analysis of this ancient Greek tragedy and examines how the rising action and confli...
seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...
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...
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...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...
concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...
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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...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...