... day book is translated and introduced by Bernard Knox. The name Oedipus means swollen foot. Comparatively speaking, Oedipus has about the same amount of brains as a foot. I think that King Oedipus is dumb primarily because of these reasons. He was irrational to accuse his brother Creon for treachery, he was constantly growing ignorant from his so called fate, and his last speech to his daughters was deffinately ... Tiresias with a grain of salt, and continued with his ignorant belief about Creon. Ignorance flows deep within Oedipus. His irrational thoughts are not only ignorant, but stu...

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... decided to obey the law of the gods - to obey fate - it is the fact that he questioned fate's omnipotence in the first place that resulted in the play ending with the spectacle of an overconfident, proud, and opinionated king brought low by fate. The chorus chants a cold pronouncement that implies that Creon deserved his punishment - divine retribution for his challenging fate. Fate is most noticeable in Oedipus the King. The citizens of Thebes ... beg their king to rid their city of a terrible plague that threatens to destroy the city. Creon, after leaving to consult the oracle, announ...

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... is space enough to know a rogue." How is time a powerful force in the play? Time is a powerful element in the play; it makes the play more dramatic and the punishment more painful. Since Oedipus killed his father, it took many years for him to realize what he had done and for that time a lot was established. He became king, had children, and fell in love with his mother. He was high ... on top, well the higher he was the harder he stumbled down. His whole life ... was based on trying to escape the ... ...

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Pride: The Tragic Flaw of Oedipus The play opens with the people of Thebes stricken with plague and begging for the help of Oedipus. Oedipus is their hero, their savior, and rightly so. He saved them from the Sphinx with his powerful intellect and remarkable courage, and has continued to live his life as their honorable and good king. Oedipus is in every sense, a true hero, and a self made man, all of which ... is worthy of the ... soul. And it is his pride and strength that causes that conversion to be so terribly tragic. A clear picture of Oedipus" character is painted for us right from t...

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... being polytheistic, gods obviously play a major role in the structure of the culture. In the trilogy of the Oedipus plays, Sophocles implies that human beings should obey the will of the gods, without question, for the gods stand for what is right. I would have to agree with this statement. In the play "Oedipus the King," it is left to the gods to see that Oedipus pays for killing his father. In the dialogue on page 22, involving Oedipus and Tiresias, a blind ... prophet, Tiresias says "You"re right. I"m not the ... ...

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... 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 avoid his fate. Oedipus goes to great efforts to attempt to escape his terrible fate of murdering his father and marrying ... clear but is told to us through Oedipus the King, is to accept what is true, especially when one does not wish to do so. We must face reality with a strong, confident attitude and not ...

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... to her untimely demise as well. Oedipus was a confident king who was revered for solving the riddle of the Sphinx. After he saved his land from the curse of the Sphinx, there was a murder case that was brought to his attention. He was told that the previous king, Laius, was murdered. Being the dedicated king that he was, Oedipus decided to find the murderer and either kill him or ... exile him from the land. Unless this person was found, the gods would place a plague on his land, so that was the reason for Oedipus to be so adamant in finding the killer. There was much speculation as ... ...

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... responsibility as a tragic hero, as does Antigone. It seems however, that Antigone shows a greater willingness to accept her responsibility. Oedipus" basic flaw is his lack of knowledge of his own identity. He starts out as a good king, and finds out laios is killed, threatening the killer to a severe punishment. He doesn't know, however, that is was actually him that killed him until later ... from pursuing the truth. Take for example a part of the last conversation between Jocasta and Oedipus. After realizing that the prophecy had came true, Jocasta begs him to let the mystery go unso...

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... is her tragic flaw of pride and being driven by emotions. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the king, and she truly belongs in the high position of princess in the royal family of Thebes. Antigone has good morals and intentions throughout the play. She wants to see justice served even if she has to disregard the laws of man. "I never thought your mortal edicts had such force that ... " Antigone. Although Creon displays a few of the traits of a tragic hero, Antigone is the only character that possesses them all. Creon has way more than one tragic flaw, he does not have good intentions ...

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... to Creon's orders concerning the body of Polynices. The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. At this point they still sing praise for King Creon and his unwavering decisions concerning the law which was placed upon the city regarding the body of Polynices: "When he weaves in the laws of the land, and the justice of the gods that binds his oaths ... together, he and his city rise high--but the city casts out that man who ... opinions about others based on their actions. A clear example of this is a presidential ...

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... , and then find out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. Antigone's fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and be loyal her family. In the first paragraph of the play it reads, "My darling sister Ismene, we have had a fine ... inheritance from Oedipus. God has gone through the whole range of sufferings and piled them all ... of Oedipus. Creon's fate though was to lose all of his family and live the rest of his life knowing it was his entire fault. In the end of the ...

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... , and then find out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. Antigone's fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and be loyal her family. In the first paragraph of the play it reads, "My darling sister Ismene, we have had a fine ... inheritance from Oedipus. God has gone through the whole range of sufferings and piled them all ... of Oedipus. Creon's fate though was to lose all of his family and live the rest of his life knowing it was his entire fault. In the end of the ...

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... , and then find out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. Antigone's fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and be loyal her family. In the first paragraph of the play it reads, "My darling sister Ismene, we have had a fine ... inheritance from Oedipus. God has gone through the whole range of sufferings and piled them all ... of Oedipus. Creon's fate though was to lose all of his family and live the rest of his life knowing it was his entire fault. In the end of the ...

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The play Antigone, by Sophocles, is based after the story of Oedipus. According to the myth, King Laios and his wife Jocasta visit an oracle. He tells them that their newborn son, Oedipus, will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. After learning this, Laios and Jocasta gave Oedipus to a shepherd with the instructions to kill him. The shepherd feels sorry for Oedipus and raises him as their own. Without ... Eteocles would not give up the thrown to Polyneisces. These are the reasons why King Creon had potential for greatness. The flaw that Creon made by not burying Polyneisces and p...

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... 's "filthy happiness" of earthly love and material comfort. Determinism, or fate, crushes people in tragic circumstances over which they have no control. Antigone is fated to follow in the footsteps of her doomed father. Her father, Oedipus, the King of Thebes, could not escape the fate that the oracle predicted for him; he was destined to kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother (Jocasta). Antigone is ... Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated "No!" to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance to the German occupatio...

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... only earns him the right to die sooner. The Chorus then turns to the powerfully built Creon, king of Thebes. When he was younger, and Oedipus ruled, he was an art patron. The death of Oedipus and his sons bound him to the weary duties of rule. Next to the sisters' Nurse sits the good Queen Eurydice. She knits and will go on knitting until the time comes for her to go ... narrator and commentator. The Chorus frames the play with a prologue and epilogue, introducing the action and characters under the sign of fatality. In presenting the tragedy, the Chorus instructs the audience on proper...

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... major theme of fate is what had gotten the family of Oedipus where they were when the play began. Fate is why Oedipus winds up killing his own father and eventually ended up marrying his own mother and then later on he found out about all of this. Fate is also what led Creon to be the new king of Thebes and what led his nephews to ... ethically right, and this is why she stakes her life based upon her loyalty and strong beliefs. She chooses the divine command over the human compulsion and rejects life with its companies for the absolutes of deaths. Indeed, in her terms these absolutes a...

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... , but Antigone wouldn't let her take the blame with her because she didn't her bury Polyneices. At the end of the play Antigone ended up committing suicide. She hung herself. Creon feels strong in what he believes in. When Oedipus died both Eteocles and Polyneices wanted to be king. Creon told them to fight for the right to become king. When they did the two brothers killed themselves. So Creon ... declared himself king. Since Polyneices fought against the state, he made the law that no one ... ...

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The play "Antigone" is a tragedy of Greek Mythology. This story is about a young girl named Antigone and her struggles with a king named Creon, who is the newly titled King of Thebes. Antigone is a daughter of the former king Oedipus. Oedipus was not raised by his original parents, so when he is a man he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. They had four children together; Antigone, Isemene, Polyneices, and ... of his two daughters, Antigone and Isemene, of how their two brothers died. After Oedipus is dead, Polyneices and Eteocles battle each other for the thrown. They are b...

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... important to Sophocles than authority, the play gets complex with Creon, and him wanting to choose authority over his family. Antigone and Haemon also play big roles in demonstrating how they want their family more than anything. Polyneceis and Eteoles were brothers along with Antigone and Ismene. Polyneceis and Eteocles fought in a war for Thebes, the town that Creon the powerful King ruled. Eteocles fought and died ... felt awful that Creon was doing such a wrong thing. After all, they were both Creon's nephews. Eteocles and Polyneceis were sons of Oedipus, and Creon was Oedipus's bro...

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... who threatened their livelihood as a society. She is not the king, nor does she have the right to perform such actions, even if she is the daughter of Oedipus Rex; she is still a woman. A mere woman became more powerful than the king of Thebes by standing and dying for her convictions, and a king was reduced to nothing by sentencing the martyr to death. He was wrong in his decision to ... . His actions were too late. By the time he returned to the cave where Antigone was held prisoner, he discovered they both took their own lives. Creon could be considered a successful failure. He success...

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... king of Thebes, and his niece, Antigone. Although the conflict is clear and easy to understand on its surface, beneath the surface onlookers often become jaded as to which character, Creon or Antigone, Sophocles intended to portray this tragic play through. As the play begins, Antigone is alone in her beliefs. The chorus sides with Creon and most likely the audience as well. However, as the play develops Antigone gains the ... is not to be buried. At this time, not allowing a body to be buried was denying a man's soul passage into the lower world, from where the after-life was the access...

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... two brothers killed each other the chorus explains, and the soldiers are in awe. Another character the chorus tells of is King Creon. It tells that he has summoned all the people to hear his word, and no one knows what he wants to talk to them for. Another thing throughout the play the chorus gives is a transition between the events in each scene. For example, at the end of scene one ... this punishment as: " Where once the anger of heaven has struck, that house is shaken/ For ever: damnation rises behind each child/ like a wave cresting out of the black northeast,/ when the long darkne...

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The play Antigone, written by Sophocles, is one play from a serious of tragic plays that all partake in the same consecutive 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 ... ...

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The Greek playwrite, Sophocles, wrote many exceptional plays. One of these is Antigone. The play is named after Oedipus's daughter, although it is primarily about her Uncle Creon. Creon is the focal point and it is his misjudgment and pride that causes his downfall. Yet, the title of this story is still Antigone. This is because it is her actions that lead to Creon's fall. She is ... the catalyst for the chain reactions that occur in the play. All Antigone ... wants to do is give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. But King Creon says that burying Polynices was illegal and punishable wi...

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