... very drunk - said I wasn't my father's son, called me a bastard". Oedipus could have investigated further into this matter but he chose to ignore the truth. This instance is circumstantial since, when he talked to king Polybos about it, he denied it. This make the reader analysis the situation more carefully, if he had said the truth then, Oedipus could have been probably been saved, and would have set ... a different destiny for himself. It could also be that king polybos wanted to protect Oedipus. After that incident he went to Apollo for answers; that ... 's where he finds out the tr...

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King Oedipus is a play in which the plot is based on dramatic irony. As of the second episode, the spectator is aware of the fact that Oedipus is responsible for the troubles in Thebes. The main characters of the plot, however, do not know of Oedipus" involvement in this ordeal. The shepherd who is called upon by the court for questioning introduces the turning point of the play by revealing the truth. He is an essential plot device in King Oedipus. The shepherd is related to the plot in two ways. In the past he had been entrusted with Oedipus by Jocasta and was ordered to destroy the baby. Th...

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... events that are separated in three different parts. The last of the Oedipus Plays is Antigone. The story is set in Thebes during the ancient Greece. Antigone is the daughter or King Oedipus. Antigone and her sister Ismene, are the last two left carrying the burden of the family curse that has been passed down for a few generations. The text quotations I have chosen for my analysis are lines 487-508. Antigone has been ... caught giving her brother Polynices a proper burial by sprinkling dirt and providing the water when Creon ... ...

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