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Oedipus Tragic Hero or Pervert

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

What is Tragic Destiny?

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

Oedipus: Tragic Hero

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 ...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Hamlet and Oedipus as Avengers

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

Oedipus’ Trial

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Tragedy and Comedy

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...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Women

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...

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Creon in Oedipus the King and Antigone

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...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

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...

Oedipus and Othello

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

Gods and Oedipus

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

Personality Theory of Sigmund Freud

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

Paradox of Dramatic Character in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper examines a passage from the Greek tragedy in order to determine to what extent Oedipus portrays himself a...

Arthur Miller, William Shakespeare, Sophocles and Consideration of the Individual and Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...

Assessment of Oedipus' Guilt

In 4 pages this paper argues that because of his life circumstances Oedipus was not guilty for the events which turned his life in...

The Ancient Greek Plays 'Oedipus' and 'Lysistrata'

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the tragedy of Oedipus differs from the comedy Lysistrata. There are 3 additional sources in...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Fates Victimized Oedipus

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

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

Classical Literature Compared

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

Heroism and its Characteristics

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

Society, Man and Destiny

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Chaldean and Greek Mythology and the Roles Played by Oracles and Fate

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the roles played by oracles and fate in the mythological tales of Achilles, Oedipus, ...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Fate

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

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and the Ancient Greek Gods

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

Play and Film Versions of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...