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the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

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

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

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...

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

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

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

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...

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