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In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

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...

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

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

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...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

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...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

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...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....