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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

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...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

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

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...

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

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

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

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

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...