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be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

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

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

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...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

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

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

same question this paper will answer. Sociological versus Psychological Studies During the 20th century, a variety of tool...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

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

and in order to protect the city and its citizens, Oedipus was compelled to take drastic action. Also, he wished to cement his re...

In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...

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 five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...

In seven pages this research paper discusses the various interpretations of this classic Greek tragedy including those of Sigmund ...

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

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...

In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...