... to each other. Each of these lessons is valuable and although these plays are approximately two thousand five hundred years old they still manage to teach lessons that apply to life in present day. In Sophocles" first Theban play, Oedipus the King, there are many lessons that are embodied by the characters, the plot and the theme. The most obvious lesson is that a person, despite honest and great efforts, cannot ... of his son and wife, both of them possessing a forceful and decisive manner. Through out the three Theban plays of Sophocles I have discovered that a common theme among the ...

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