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In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...

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...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

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

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

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

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...

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

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

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

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

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...

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...

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

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

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

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

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