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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear One of the key themes in both Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is the importance of having a good understanding of our condition as human beings – knowing ourselves, the world that surrounds us and our place in it. At the same time, however, both authors recognize the fact that blindness to this knowledge of the human condition is a basic mortal trait. Thus, before we can have an

The play King Lear centers around the King and his daughters, following their journeys after the transfer of Lear’s power. However, at the end, it’s not Lear who comes out on top, nor any of his daughters, but instead Edgar. Edgar’s journey is filled with ups and downs throughout the play, as he adapts to new situations and faces new challenges. Although he is not the main character, Edgar deserves to live and become the ruler of Britain. Edgar, as the legitimate son of Gloucester, was the rightful

reason for the insurrection, it was likely violent and involved someone’s overthrow, possibly accompanied by their death. In staunch contrast to any rebellion, Dr. King advocated and led a revolt of peace against segregation of blacks and whites, specifically in the American south. In the troubled American civil rights era, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. conveyed to the world that when one recognizes unjust law based on moral conscience, resists peacefully, and replaces it with love and just moral law, their

Even as literature has multiple genres, themes can still parallel each other regardless of appearing in two altogether varying works very different authors of distinct separate time frames conceive and write. Even as The Kite Runner is a work of historical fiction and Oedipus Rex develops a well known and praisable Greek tragedy, a theme of betrayal places itself throughout both. Literature demonstrates that learning moral is genuine through any method. In both pieces of literature, betrayal is a

Raven Scott Professor Carruth ENGL 205:01 8 September 2017 The Tragic Downfall in Oedipus Rex In Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is what is known in a tragedy as the tragic hero. Oedipus is the tragic hero because his fate goes from having the fortune to ending up in misfortune. Usually, the tragic hero is given a "tragic flaw" that sets the character up for his own downfall. The tragic flaw is intentionally an excessive positive trait causes the character fortune to turn to misfortune. In

King Leopold set his focus on the Congo because he wanted to rule a colony of his own, something bigger than just little old Belgium, and the Congo provided that. It had waterways that connected the land, as well as people that he could use as slaves. A book that he had read titled Java, or How to Manage a Colony had sparked Leopold’s interest for a colony of his own (Hochschild, p. 37). According to the quote, “In the mid-1870s, sub-Saharan Africa was a logical place for an aspiring colonialist

A Fool for a King in King Lear     In Shakespeare's play King Lear, the main character, King Lear, is presented as a respected and powerful king. As the story progresses the king loses his power because of his own stupidity and blindness. The tragedy of this play is shown chiefly through the actions of Lear’s daughters, which lead to Lear’s bout with insanity, and through the words of the Fool. At the beginning of the play, King Lear appears as a powerful and well-loved ruler. He explains

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Many events that lead to the tragedy of Oedipus Rex proved that his life was troubling defined by Aristotle. Oedipus high ranking birth lead him to a eventful life because of what his parents decision was at birth. “An Oracle came to laius one fine day and it declared that down at the hands of a son, our son, to be born of our own flesh and blood” (Aristotle 201). This oracle was the telling of this whole family's future and that it was going to lead them to some sticky situations. Oedipus found

The novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White features a character named Merlyn, who is a wizard and also a mentor for the Wart. He teaches Wart skills that are important for a ruler to have by turning Wart into different animals and going on adventures. White uses the ants and the moat in order to critique the events that were happening at the time the novel was published, such as World War Two and totalitarianism. This is done in order to criticize how humanity has become greedy, malevolent