... lesson in Oedipus at Colonus is that one should never judge another by rumors or by his appearance. When the people of Athens (the chorus) first see Oedipus they pity him and his daughter Antigone, who has lead him throughout the country since his exile from Thebes. However, when they discover Oedipus" true identity they are scandalized and would never consider him as a guest ... considers her chosen fate too harsh, but Creon carries out his decision and is punished for doing so by the death of his own son and wife. This next play, Antigone does not teach lessons as the others do, but i...

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... that determines his fate is his sheer determination to find who killed King Laius, in hopes to disprove his own suspicions that he himself is the killer. He refuses to let go of the matter even when his wife, Jocasta, begs him to. "For Heaven's sake, if you care for your own life, don't seek it! I am sick and that's enough! (38 ... that he makes to his people, to punish and exile the person who killed King Laius. After learning that it was he himself who killed King Laius, Oedipus chooses to honour his promise, instead of pushing the blame onto someone else. Asking Creon to "out of this...

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... time I joined your search for vengeance; our country and the god deserve no less" (711). This belief that he completely understands the will of the gods and that he'll further their ends through his own ingenuity shows the drastic contrast between the truth as Oedipus sees it and the truth as proclaimed by the oracle at Delphi. The parody of the gods' truth versus Oedipus' truth continues as ... insight when he says, "I'll go. You can see nothing clearly" (725). Oedipus' wife Jokasta attempts to reintroduce logic into the situation and tells Oedipus the story of her own "failed" prophec...

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... to be in total control of making laws which were believed to be directed from God, what followed were the noblemen, the clergy, the landowners etc. Women were taught from birth that they were inferior to men and once they married, the husband gained ownership of the wife and household. In this period it was considered incest for in-law brother and sister to be intimate ... in any way which was the relationship in which Claudius and Gertrude shared. What views would the Elizabethans have towards Hamlet (and his repressed emotions towards his mother ... 's resentment and humiliation by ma...

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