... Greek mythology with tragedy into the two of his most known plays: Antigone and Oedipus Rex. At the beginning of Oedipus the King, Oedipus is highly confident, and with good reason. He has saved Thebes from the curse of the Sphinx and becomes the king of the city virtually overnight. "Three thousand years, at ... the least, have passed away since that riddle was propounded...." (De Quincey 235-51). He proclaimed his name proudly as if he was a god, "I would not have you speak through messengers, and therefore I have come hear you-I, Oedipus ... conveys, "How dreadful knowledge of the tr...

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... , it is important to study Antigone's early childhood, which displays the origins of the characteristics found in her that make her a feminist. In Oedipus of Colonus, Sophocles illustrates these qualities that Antigone possesses. During the first twenty years of her life, Antigone spends her time secluded from society with her ... be decent" (Hwang 15). "Decent" is in this case the narrator's opinion, and the word probably has many different meanings depending on who reads it. OEDIPUS:"Oh my piteous children, known, well known to me are the desires wherewith ye have come: well wot I that...

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