... praised. Yet , at times, it may also cause problems. The power of love can create impacts upon people, in which they have no control on the effects. Two plays, "A Doll's House", by Henrik Ibsen, and "Antigone", by Sophocles, illustrate the basis behind this quote. "Antigone", is a tragic play that takes place in Thebes. The sons of the great Oedipus, Eteocles and ... cries. "Herald of pain, more words, more grief? I died once, you kill me again and again! What's the report, boy some new for me? My wife dead? O dear god! Slaughter heaped on slaughter?" (1063). She has lost her son whom s...

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... be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger generation of the Ithacan aristocracy. Sophocles' Ajax sees nothing wrong in his attempt to kill the commanders of the army for denying him the armor of ... him (368) to gain time. Aegeus is tricked into promising her asylum in Athens: tricked is the word, for if he had realized that she intended to destroy the royal house of Corinth and her own children, he would ne...

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... out certain unattractive features in Oedipus' character, his wrath, and his unjust haste to condemn without evidence. The portrayal of these features is important, for they explain in part his slaughter of Laius, and they certainly serve as some moral justification for the downfall of Oedipus. Oedipus is guilty of injustice as a ruler and an unorthodox attitude toward seers and oracles ... Corinth to avoid fulfillment of a similar prophecy. To calm his fears the messenger assures him that he is not the blood son of Polybus and Merope, but a child from the house of Laius that was deserte...

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