Comparing oedipus

at odds with one individual, groups or societies. Oedipus the king and Antigone both have 2 central characters that happen to be at odds with societies but for different reasons. I will analyze why Oedipus and Creon were at odds with their societies, how the conflict affected them and others and whether they received just punishment. Oedipus was a cursed man from the start and although he tried to change his fate he ran right into it. When Oedipus found out that the former king’s killers were never

Nora and Oedipus both hold qualities of Tragic Heroes. Both characters experience Hamartia leading them to Peripeteia and Anagnorisis. In Oedipus, Oedipus curses the man who killed the King to “drag out / his life in agony, step by painful step” and himself if the man was “an intimate of [his] house” (Sophocles, 1434). Because he was the one who killed the King, he cursed himself twice which shows a miss of judgment because he thought it was someone else, but it was not. Nora, from A Doll House

Oedipus, the main character of a famous ancient Greek tragedy, Oedipus Tyrannus written by Sophocles, blinded himself and was exiled from Thebes voluntary after his destiny of killing his own father and married his own mother has been fulfilled. Socrates, a well-known ancient Greek philosopher, was accused with his greedy thoughts to the youth and impious without religion, drinking hemlock and die was his denouement by giving out the opportunities to escape. In my opinion, Oedipus and Socrates have

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Hamlet by Shakespeare are two plays that both explore the idea of taking revenge. While both plays use the idea of revenge to continually progress the plot forward, the motivations behind the two characters strive for revenge have some differences. In Oedipus the King, the motivation for Oedipus’ revenge is to stop the plague that has been brought upon to the people of Thebes, while the motivation for Hamlet is to avenge his father's death. The outcomes of each character’s

Throughout Sophocles Oedipus trilogy, the character Creon has the same identity in all three plays, yet he is depicted as having different challenging personalities in each of Sophocles’ plays. Into the Greek’s concept of dramatic character, influences tragedy in the portrayal of a character. Sophocles uses Creon’s origins as a perfect ruler figure to expand on two very different portrayals of Creon’s individuality seen in Oedipus the King and Antigone. As Creon exceeds to project his character as

protagonists in the plays Hamlet and Oedipus Rex share a commonality in terms of finding justice for their past king’s death; however, in terms of free-will they are opposites. Firstly, both protagonists differ greatly as a result of their fate, while Hamlet is given a task that he can choose to obey or dismiss, Oedipus is given a prophecy that forecasts how his life will go down. From this alone, it’s clear how Hamlet is in control of his destiny; as for Oedipus, his destiny controls him whether he

Ms. Chung AP Lit 5 Nov 2014 Oedipus Rex and the Death of a Salesman The tragic heroes in the Oedipus Rex and the Death of a Salesman are contrasting in their hamartia and social background because they were written in different times. Oedipus Rex is an example of Greek tragedy where the tragic hero is of a high class. It is a story of a man who is born with a prophecy to kill his father and then marry his mother. From his abandon, adoption to adulthood, Oedipus is not aware of his own fate

told him of his true origins. Believing that they were his biological parents, when Oedipus found out about his fate, he ran away and arrived in Thebes. Unbeknownst to him, his real birth place. Throughout the whole story, Oedipus is surrounded by all these obvious coincidences, but is oblivious to everything. The truth was right in front of his face throughout the story and he either was too naive to see it

Oedipus and Free Will In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, free will is defined as the ability to make choices without being controlled by God or fate. In the story Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Oedipus has to deal with his fate as determined by a prophecy that describes how he would kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus could have defied fate and followed his own free will and survived this story without his tragic ending. In the story of Oedipus, he is known throughout Thebes as

two plays in particular, Hamlet and Oedipus Rex. I will compare and contrast their protagonists’ quests for knowledge. The action in Oedipus Rex starts out with a horrible plague over the city of Thebes. Oedipus, the King of Thebes, tells his brother- in-law Creon to go to Apollo and ask the oracle how to end the plague. The oracle tells Creon that the plague will be lifted if the killer of Laius, the previous king and husband of Jocasta, can be found. Oedipus swears he will find the killer and