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"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

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 ...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

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...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

prior to and following the death of Elizabeth I (Kelly and Kelly 677). Through certain key scenes in Hamlet, Greenblatt contends ...

seek vengeance for the father. Hamlet goes through many different changes because of the realities he has been told, and becaus...

Through his insightful approach, Shakespeare attempts to push forward the strength and spirituality of women. Indeed, he recogniz...

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

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

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...