Death and the Kings Horseman

As is true with characters of many other works of literature, the protagonist of Oedipus the King, must contend with the horrible reality of his past. This protagonist, Oedipus, killed his father and married his mother, and what is worse, is that he is not aware of this. Throughout the entire play, his relationship with his past is one of ignorance. His ignorance of past events is what causes the play to unfold as it does. Unaware of his own reality, Oedipus leads himself to his own demise by becoming overly confident and prideful, and by distancing himself from his supporters. Through the main character’s relationship with the past, Sophocles develops his central themes of fate, sight, and pride.

When people think about ancient Egypt, they think about the temples, mummies, pyramids, and hieroglyphs. One of the greatest discoveries of life in ancient Egypt is the Valley of the Kings where all of the Egyptian Pharaohs in a five-hundred-year period have been buried. Those Egyptian Pharaohs ruled from around 1539 B.C. to around 1075 B.C. in a time period that was known as the New Kingdom which covered the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties. Currently, about 62 tombs have been found. Where is the Valley of the Kings located? How are the tombs built? What do the artwork in the tomb represent? What gets buried with the dead Pharaohs? These questions have been commonly asked about the ancient Egyptian tombs and the Pharaohs that get buried in them.

The entire play comes to a tragic end. And with dramatic irony is clearly seen in the entire play. Oedipus killed his father and murdered his mother, but Oedipus and Jocasta did not find out until the end, Tieresias ' warnings and prophecy clearly portray the use of irony. Rhetorical questions are seen questioning himself or fate. What, born as mine were born?”

The plot of Oedipus the King, a Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles, revolves around several prophecies. A plague has stricken Thebes, and Oedipus discovers that the plague will only end when the murder of King Laius has been caught. Additionally, another prophecy states that the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta would kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus vows to the citizens of Thebes that he will find the murderer, but as the plot develops, Oedipus comes to the realization that he himself was the murderer that he had been seeking. There are several scenes in Oedipus the King that incorporate violence, and these violent scenes are a critical aspect of the play because they contribute to the development of the plot; the use of violence, whether verbal or physical, also enhances our understanding of the characters’ personalities and/or emotions.

Oedipus the King is a tragedy that displays irony throughout the play. In the play, King Laius and his wife Jocasta learn that in the prophecy their newborn son, Oedipus, will kill his father and marry his mother. In order to prevent the prophecy from occurring, they decide to bind and tie his ankles and then abandoned him. When Oedipus grew up, he eventually learned about this prophecy and decided to leave his parents. What he did not realize was that the parents who raised him were not his biological parents. On his voyage to Thebes, Oedipus ended up in a chariot accident

Crazy Horse was born in 1840 near Rapid City ,South Dakota. He was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against the removal to a reservation in the Black Hills. In 1876 he joined with Cheyenne in a surprise attack against General. George Crook, Then united forces with Chief Sitting Bull for the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered and was killed by a soldiers. Since his death, Crazy Horse has become a great mythical figure.

The revered tragedy written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, has been cherished and taught for over four hundred years. The development of the play revolves around the castle of Elsinore in Denmark and the diverse personalities of the people involved. As the events of the play unravel, the young prince Hamlet creates an effective storyline by his vast character contrasts. Not only does this change how other characters in the tragedy act, but the overall outcome of the story. Hamlet goes through different aspects of the play as a displeased onlooker, a hesitant heir wishing to settle issues, and as a vengeance seeker.

Grant’s white horses finally arrive for him and he becomes more aware and gathers insight about how to learn and cope with tragedies in his life. Waiting for white horses is the theme of how people will become able to receive intuition about the journey of their life. There is an idea expressed towards the end of the book that describes Grant’s dad’s funeral. It is the idea of a funeral being sad that I refute with. I disagree with the book’s thoughts and believe that funerals should not be mournful, but in fact they should celebrate and reflect someone’s life and also celebrate the beginning of one.

In The Return of the King written by J.R.R. Tolkein, he says “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” More so than some of the other quotes I’ve written about, this one strikes close to home for me, and relates to everything we’ve covered in these last few weeks of class. Grieving is only a natural process for everyone, and those at end of life, family or patient, also have to deal with this grief. However, having a plan for the end, a strong support system, and quality care before dying is crucial to coping with the loss soon to be had. It’s also important to consider the route that the patient chooses before death.

Even though Robert is a member of the Spanish military and specializes in blowing up bridges and sometimes buildings in order to fight for his beloved country. He rather blow up buildings and bridges than to be killing people on the front lines or anywhere. You read about him kill on a few different times in the book, but all the times it is necessary to that particular moment of that war. Like when he kills the cavalryman for almost discovering his camp's location and then when

“Oedipus the King” is a tragic story written by Sophocles. Oedipus is a king that is trying to escape his fate. An oracle had predicted that he was going to be the killer of his father, and was going to sleep with his mother. When he was first born, his parents attempted to kill him yet he survived and was adopted. Instead of getting away from the atrocious future that was predicted, Oedipus walks right into his fate. This Greek tragedy is about transitions. He starts off as arrogant, unknowing, and full of ego but this drastically changes as we reach the end of the play. Oedipus becomes a wise man and has accepted how life is. No matter how much power or knowledge you have there is no way of tampering with fate, instead accept and learn from it.

It is the responsibility of man to take ownership of his destiny which separates the human condition for that of other earthly beasts. From birth, Oedipus, the tragic hero of Sophocles’ Greek Tragedy Oedipus Rex, is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Although by the opening act of the play, Oedipus has earned the throne of Thebes for solving the riddle of the Sphinx, the eponymous character is unaware that he has already fulfilled his prophecy. Meanwhile, the people of Thebes are dying of a plague that will only end when the unknown murderer of Laius, the previous Theban King, is punished. Through retrospection, Oedipus believes that he might be responsible for Laius death and is told that the King and Queen of Corinth who

Elesin is supposed to commit spiritual suicide by means of dance and music with the assistance of the Praise Singer, the drummers and the women who sing a dirge. Elesin is going to undergo a trance in which he will quietly kill himself. The Praise Singer helps him on:

In Britain, the sadness comes from missing someone who clearly left the world too early - before God called them. In Africa, the sadness comes from worrying about the destruction of the universe because tradition has been broken. So we arrive back where we started; the Yorubans consider everything in terms of a larger consciousness; Westerns in terms of personal freedom and experience. When all these ideologies are forced to coalesce during the colonial occupation, Elesin's situation is bound to happen. The clash of all these opposing ideas creates the conflict that makes Death and the King's Horseman. When Elesin's mind is given a taste of the English belief of free will, he is tempted away from his birth culture. The idea that the world does not rest on his shoulders, that the afterlife of the Yoruba might be false, and that he might continue to live until God chooses to strike him down (and enjoy the splendors of life and sex) creates a hole in his core beliefs. The taste is too much and too little; it nags in the back of his mind and eventually causes his downfall at the time of his expected suicide. Suicide becomes personal, physical, and scary. And so he runs away recklessly to the Westerners. Yet the fact that Elesin lives is a failure to the Yorubans and, although a momentary success, eventually becomes a failure as well to the British. He is forced to make a bad decision because he

Elesin begs Olunde to acknowledge him but in vain; Olunde, who has respected his tradition, disowns his father. It is noteworthy that initially Elesin disowned Olunde because of abandoning his tradition and leaving for England. The situation is reversed; ' ' Olunde now casts off his father who has failed in the central duty and meaning of his life ' ' ( Plastow, ' 'Notes ' ' 88 ). Olunde, who has realized the greatness of his culture, sticks firmly to it and decides to take his father 's place by committing the ritual suicide so as