... -class family where they had three home-cooked meals a day along with the opportunity to earn an education. It's safe to 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 role of both the mother and wife of Oedipus. Many believe that Jocasta was aware during the whole play that Oedipus was her son while some think it was still...

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... men of his day, Sophocles uniquely combined 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 ... I have come hear you-I, Oedipus who bear the famous name" (7-9) When Creon first appears in Oedipus the King, Creon is shown to be separate from the citizen...

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... 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 ... avoided, for if it were, then it would not occur in life and therefore not be destiny. Another lesson that is not as clear but is told to us through Oedipus the King, is to accept what is tr...

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... men of his day, Sophocles uniquely combined 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 ... I have come hear you-I, Oedipus who bear the famous name" (7-9) When Creon first appears in Oedipus the King, Creon is shown to be separate from the citizen...

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... , for myself and for all of you"(Sophocles 75-76). By this, the reader can see how much he worries and cares about the city more then your average king might do which helped me as the reader feel compassion towards him. Another way that Oedipus's goodness is shown is through his ability to be a good husband to Jocasta. Even after he realizes what he ... feeling superior got him in tough situations. This was first shown in the beginning of the story when he cursed himself unknowingly because he was treating himself as a god or as if he felt above all because he was the king. This was show...

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... 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 willpower and reverence for higher authority, she claims to be defending the laws of the gods (which, of course, supersede those of the king's). This is a noble stance taken on her part, and ... throughout the course of this play she remains true to her ... beliefs, seeming unafraid to embrace her destiny. One can see from merely looking at the ... ...

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Antigone, in Greek legend, was the daughter of Oedipus. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed one another, Creon, king of Thebes, forbade the rebel Polynices" burial. Antigone disobeyed him, performed the rites, and was condemned to death for what she had done. Now the question arises, "Did Antigone take proper action?". Was it just to go against her Uncle Creon's wishes and go ahead and bury ... the brother that was to be ... partner, Antigone refuses to let her help because she wants to be known for what she has done. Ismene seems to have a change of heart when she is brought to ...

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