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destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

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

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

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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One of the of the fundamental reasons for the success of the Romans was their ability to adopted the best components of the cultur...

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

also suggests that battle was not only crucial, but perhaps desired. We also note that in some legends Odin sacrificed one of h...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...

In six pages this report compares these two Freudian childhood complexes. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

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 6 pages this paper discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and Return of the Ring in a consideration of the i...

The tragedies these leaders experience that lead them onto a path of self knowledge are the focus of this paper consisting of five...

of boundaries. II. Loki : The Instigator of Conflicts When Loki appears in a myth called "the Eddas," it is mostly in his role...

In two and a half pages this paper examines the Norse god of the dead Odin in a consideration of how his eye was lost and how in t...

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...

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

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