1. The text I will be working from in this Multimodal Project is ‘Oedipus the King’ by Sophocles. This play references sight and blindness multiple times since Oedipus was blinded from the truth for a long period, so I would like to emphasize this even more by visualizing it in a cartoon for readers. I also want to capture Oedipus’ ‘dreadful mark of shame’ since it is a great example of symbolism which further emphasizes the theme of the play which is power of prophecy. Finally, I would like to use
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Oedipus the King: Free Will or Fate? A common debate that still rages today is whether we as a species have free will or if some divine source, some call it fate, controls our destiny. The same debate applies to Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Does Oedipus control his actions, or are they predetermined by the gods? It’s that question that makes Oedipus a classic, and many different people think many different things. With all the oracles and talk of prophecies, its obvious that
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highways meet.” (Sophocles 42). The gods have set in motion the events of the future and after hearing the story of the late Kings Laius death; Oedipus is beginning to realize he is the murderer. Furthermore, when Oedipus come to know about Queen Jocasta, his mother/wife, has hung herself, he gauges his eyes out with her golden clips. “It was Apollo, friends, Apollo, that brought this bitter bitterness, my sorrows to completion.” (Sophocles 75). This comment shows his belief of gods playing a role
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Oedipus the King: Free Will or Fate? A common debate that still rages today is whether we as a species have free will or if some divine source, some call it fate, controls our destiny. The same debate applies to Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Does Oedipus control his actions, or are they predetermined by the gods? It’s that question that makes Oedipus a classic, and many different people think many different things. With all the oracles and talk of prophecies, its obvious that
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into the city he encountered some people whom and he got in a fight with and ended up killing, little did he know it was his father. Since he solved the riddle from the Sphinx in front of Thebes he became ruler. He fell in love with a woman named Jocasta, little did he know it was his mother. Oedipus had no idea how bad things were but he would soon realize. After a bad plague was cast on Thebes, the blind prophet, Tiresias, told Oedipus that whoever killed the Laius the king would have to confess
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hearing this because he did not believe that he would ever do something like that. Jocasta then mention how Laius was killed on the three-way intersection. Oedipus found this incident very familiar because it was he who killed Laius along with other men at such intersection. Later on in the play it was found that Oedipus was brought to Thebes as an orphan by a shepherd and that his father was Laius. And because Jocasta was wife of Laius, she is also the mother of Oedipus. So what Tiresias
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What would you consider a hero? Someone who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding and noble qualities? Would you consider a hero typically a man or woman? Well, in this case it is a woman. In the play Antigone, Antigone is well known for becoming a hero because she was willing to sacrifice her own life, doing what she believed was the right thing to do. In the play, Antigone believes in the power of law and tradition. Even though King Creon orders that the traitor, Polynices should not
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sister Antigone believes that the law is unreasonable, so she sets out to give her brother a proper burial despite Creon’s intense feelings. Initially Creon successes rule over Thebes because of the death of the last King and Queen, Oedipus and Jocasta. The former king and queen’s son, Polyneices, turned out to be a renegade and commanded an attack on his homeland of Thebes. As a result, Creon created
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Mike Bozzo Professor Katie Robinson English 102 5 October 2014 The Blame Game The Downfall of Oedipus and Othello Both Othello and Oedipus are dramatic plays of tragic circumstances. Although written at different times and by different types of writers, each play has some of the same elements. Deceit, violence and self-destruction reign throughout. Each features men of great power reduced to nothing. However, the downfall of Oedipus is the work of the gods; the downfall of Othello is self-inflicted
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(Sophocles 1317-1318). The irony of this conversation is that Oedipus becomes physically blind when he repeatedly strikes his eyes with golden brooches after seeing his dead wife (1340). Also, the usage of irony of situation is present in Oedipus Rex. Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife and mother, believes that her son is dead (Sophocles 1325). The discrepancy lies in the fact that her son is alive and that her son is Oedipus. Irony of circumstance is seen again in Oedipus believing that the prophesies were a lie
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