... say that their fate would have been much different. They wouldn't have been punished because of what they were born into, very similar to the tragic story of Oedipus the King. The King and his wife, Jocasta, received punishments that I believe did not fit their "crimes " that they committed. Jocasta played the ... with herself anymore. Jocasta ends up taking her own life as a form of punishment upon herself. What the most tragic part about the suicide was, Oedipus witnessed the whole thing, losing his wife and his mother. As most can imagine, this had an affect on him. After reading this ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ... not prepared to face the terrible truth of his past and in an effort to be masked from the truth again he physically blinds himself. The story of Oedipus then continues as the blind man, who was exiled from Thebes, is lead by his loyal daughter Antigone to Athens and to his death ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 109). Sophocles definitely provided a perfect tragedy by imitating these actions. From the very beginning when you realize that the Oracle of Delphi has told Oedipus that he will kill his father and marry his mother you start to get into the character. We all understand how upsetting this news would be ... what he has done he still loves her and feels much compassion for her. Throughout the story he continuously treats her as an equal even though at the time this story was written this was uncommon. This was obvious when Oedipus said, "I will tell you. I respect you, Jocasta, much more ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... these laudable qualities embodied by Antigone and Medea, and prove that the two are, indeed, examples of brave, heroic females. Antigone, which was written by Sophocles in 422 b.c., is the story of a headstrong young woman who refuses to listen to an edict of the king's, her uncle Kreon, that states that her dead brother Polyneices will not receive a proper burial as ... the fact that nobody is willing to help her, and the knowledge that she will most certainly be caught. Doomed from the start - she is the daughter of the accursed Oedipus - Antigone is pushed ahead by her sheer willpowe...

• Word Count: 2039
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School