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…The story of “Oedipus the King” is of a man who falls shamelessly from power. Sophocles’ wrote this Dramatic Irony using themes of fate and blindness. As the story unfolds, it’s quite evident Oedipus did in fact kill his Father and marry his Mother…

…Shane Combs Combs 1 English III. Pd 7 Mrs. Mallonee Word Count: 1,256 December 4th, 2000 Two Peas in a Pod The play Antigone by Sophocles takes place in ancient Thebes. Two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, fight for the throne…

…Themes in Sophocles’s Oedipus the King Sophocles’s Oedipus the King is a classic Greek tragic play. There are many themes in this play. They cover almost everything from fate and destiny to betrayal and incest. The main theme of the play…

…as a citizen or person. In a Greek trilogy written by Sophocles there are two ma in characters, Antigone and Creon. They are both strong willed and stubborn people. Both being unwilling to change, they both seal each others fate. Creon is passionate…

…gift of prophecy? You talk as one who had no care, care for law, love for Thebes who reared you.” (Sophocles, p. 23) “I will not be persuaded to let be the chance of finding, out the whole thing clearly.” (Sophocles, p.53) These two quotes basically sum up…

…According to Aristotle, a tragedy is a form of theater that replicates a solemn action with the intention of stirring dread and sympathy in the viewer. Sophocles’ Antigone and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons both fit…

…life out of shame, fear, frustration or any other strong emotion that has claimed control of his mind and not allowed him to think clearly to assess his dilemma. Although self-inflicted harm, including several suicides, occurs in both of Sophocles’ dramas…

…In the characters of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Antigone and Medea, the ancient Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides offer four distinctly different views of the roles which women played in Greek society. While women definitely…

…out. Bibliography Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus. Trans. Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner. New York: Norton & Co. 1970: 3-18. Sheppard, J. T. The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1920: xxic-xl.…

…of thought, its core is focused on one theme: man. All literature carries with itself three main characteristics: it is written by man, for man, and about man. Oedipus the King, the great Greek tragedy by the unparalleled philosopher, Sophocles, is no exception…