Category: /Literature/World Literature
Aristotle defined Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles as the perfect tragedy. One of the elements in his definition of tragedy included tragic flaw (hamartia), and he said a tragic hero's downfall should be due to his/her tragic flaw. King Oedipus falls
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Category: /Literature/European Literature
. The roots of such moving narration can be traced back infallibly to Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy, in particular Oedipus Rex, otherwise known as Oedipus the King. Both Macbeth and Oedipus, the protagonists of the aforementioned classic literature respectively
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Category: /Literature
of years of furious debating yielded nothing and wasted precious oxygen. However, according to Aristotle the greatest tragedy is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Aristotle must have held this tragedy in very high regard because the Poetics is based on Oedipus Rex. What
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Category: /Literature/European Literature
Through the character of Oedipus, Sophocles shows the futility and consequences of defying the divine order. Oedipus served Thebes as a great ruler, loved by his subjects; but it is his one tragic flaw, hubris, which dooms his existence, regardless
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Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Antigone and Oedipus The King, written by Sophocles, are deeply tragic plays with a dramatic ending. In both plays, fate arises the question: could have Creon, Oedipus, Antigone, and the rest of the family, prevented the misfortunes, which fell upon them
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Category: /Literature
"Oedipus Rex" is the classic play by Sophocles about the tragedy of a man by the name of Oedipus. After studying Oedipus Rex, interesting questions arise to mind. For example, why was Oedipus saved from death in the mountains when he was a baby? Does
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Category: /Arts & Humanities/Theater
Antigone a play of antithethesis and conflict
Sophocles' Antigone, in its later phases is no longer about the conflict of law. It is about stubbornness and self will, about the sin of refusing to listen; about a man who has never been told
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Category: /Literature/English
Antigone: The True Tragic Hero in Sophocles' Antigone
In Sophocles' Antigone, the question of who the tragic hero really is, has been a subject of debate for a great number years. Creon does possess some of the qualities that constitute
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Category: /Arts & Humanities/Theater
Antigone
Critics have traditionally divided over the question of whether Antigone or Creon is the protagonist in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles. The answer lies in ones interpretation of the play. Is it a play about a woman doomed
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Category: /Literature/English
, / chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth / can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. / Better to live at random, best we can, (Sophocles 1069-1072). It is better to not try and learn your fate and try to change it, but to live without knowing
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