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Has anyone ever thought about who created great plays where the audience knew what happened before the characters did? Sophocles’ created very intriguing plays, one of them was Oedipus the King. In the play Oedipus killed his father not knowing it was him because he got new parents because his parents wanted him dead because of the prosthesis of him marrying his mother and killing his father. He put a bunch of curses on the person who killed the king (his father) and banished them too. After

During Sophocles’s time in Athens, a plethora of social and political issues were present in its society. These issues are modeled and demonstrated through a series of examples and circumstances in Oedipus the King. Sophocles uses the story of Oedipus’s downfall as an example to the Greeks and a reflection of the current affairs in his life. He goes into further interpretation when using the city of Thebes to re enact how life is in Athens to give a more relatable of easier understood outlook on

A motif in Oedipus Rex is the matter of fate and the amount of control that the characters have over their own. Fate, when used as a noun, is defined as events beyond a person's control, usually developed by supernatural beings. I think Sophocles’s work misused the word “fate”. Throughout this work, I believe the characters were trying to reconstruct their future, not their fate, since it’s inhumanly possible to do so even for the Greeks. Sophocles does demonstrate the human desire to control their

Jocasta and Nora In ancient times and even in the twenty century women were diminished and discriminated; therefore; they always had to follow what their men said. Women would not have a credit card or even have the chance to take a loan without the consent of their husband. They had to be careful of things that could affect their image if they were from a high status. Sometimes women had to keep some things from their husbands, so they would not lose their husband’s trust. The crisis that Jocasta

P.5 Antigone Questions 1-5 1. The relationship between Antigone and Ismene is close because they are both sisters but at the same time their relationship isn’t that strong. One of reasons they are foils to each other is because of their disagreement about burying the body of their brother Polyneices. Antigone already knows that she is willing to die to let her brother rest in peace but Ismene on the other isn’t on her side, instead she doesn’t want to help Antigone because she want

"Literary people have long been studying and teaching plays as if they were meant to be read rather than performed." "A central part of a play's meaning is the way it was originally designed to work on stage." William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles Oedipus the King have long been included on academic lists for scholarly study as literary texts. As someone who has studied both texts in just the manner Hornby mentions, I would suggest that what is lost when a scholar treats a play text

Emily Morris Dr. Brooks ENC 1102 8 December 2015 Different Qualities, Same Fate When analyzing both Oedipus the King and Antigone, Oedipus and Antigone are very alike in ways. When reading these plays, the mind is wired to compare how the protagonists are alike, and contrast how they are different. Antigone and Oedipus are idolized by the people, but the legacy of Oedipus seems to have been altered due to the fact that he has experienced bad past family relationships; therefore as Gale explains,

Inability to Escape Fate Many people believe that fate has planned out their lives and despite efforts on their part what was meant to happen, will eventually happen. This belief has been handed down over the centuries from some of the first civilizations, such as the Greeks. However, not all Greek citizens wanted destiny to take control of their lives. Some decided to choose freewill over the will of the gods. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles writes a cautionary tale meant to warn the doubters in

Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to have been invited to talk to you all tonight about OSU's upcoming production of Oedipus Rex in my capacity as someone expert in Greek history. Many of you will already be familiar with the outlines of the tragic story and I will not rehash those plot details tonight. What I would like to highlight are some of the ways that knowing the background of ancient Greek history helps us understand the play better. For instance, we could start with the title, usually

Oedipus Rex as the Ideal Tragic Hero If we give ourselves up to a full sympathy with the hero, there is no question that the Oedipus Rex fulfills the function of a tragedy, and arouses fear and pity in the highest degree. But the modern reader, coming to the classic drama not entirely for the purpose of enjoyment, will not always surrender himself to the emotional effect. He is apt to worry about Greek fatalism and the justice of the downfall of Oedipus, and, finding no satisfactory solution