Category: /Literature
…this hubris becomes apparent. Some traditionalists would say that from his acts the reader can tell that Oedipus had always been a proud man. However this does not seem to fit in with what Sophocles portrays. Early in the play he establishes that Oedipus…
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Category: /Literature/Poetry
…of pain at last.? (Sophocles 1684)
Oedipus is great because the revelation of the truth brings him insight and understanding. After realizing that he was the, ?curse, the corruption of the land,? he took on his responsibilities and blinds himself from…
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Category: /Literature/European Literature
…The most important innovations Sophocles brings to Oedipus the King, is the way he brings religious paradox and dramatic irony together making fate a new concept and relating that to a monotheistic theology as apposed to a polytheistic one.
Sophocles…
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Category: /Literature/World Literature
…One of the most successful Greek tragedies, that has affected audiences since the fifth century is Oedipus the King written by Sophocles. Oedipus the King is powerful because it shows how a man comes to the greatest point of his life and then through his…
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Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
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Category: /Literature
…was going to do so. Nothing anyone said or did could stop it from happening. Sophocles believed the same thing. This play shows that Sophocles believed in fate rather than free will. The whole story is about how no one can escape their fate. Though Oedipus leaves…
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Category: /Literature
…When reading the works of two great writers, a person can find many similarities between them. The underlying themes of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles Oedipus King excite the reader yet leave us with the desire of wanting more. There are significant…
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Category: /Literature
…Seeing All and Seeing None
In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, sight and blindness are used as an underlying theme throughout the play. Sophocles makes the point that those with sight are not all seeing, and often those without sight see what others don't…
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Category: /Literature
…The struggle with understanding the needs of individual's rights versus the rights of the higher power of government leads to political destruction within the state. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton). Sophocles…
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