... of being heir to a throne with a fiancée sentenced to death by their father. Essentially, the conflict between father and son is created from an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile their opposing views. This basic understanding of the conflict is easily applicable to the private lives of each reader for it is a rare person indeed that would claim not to have had a disagreement ... ...
... , allowing the deities to have full control over one's fate. However, individual thought was also becoming a more common notion at this time, and people were often conflicted between their own views and Greek tradition. Many of these ideals as well as social concerns are expressed in the stories Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, through Oedipus" relationships with his family ... . This a reference to an important issue of Greek culture. Apollo, the god of order and reason, and Dionysus, the god of wine and chaos, were two important deities that represented opposing ideals. The bala...
