Jocasta represent something powerful to their society. In both Oedipus the King and Medea, the dominant female characters impacted upon men with authority and political power. It is an inescapable fate that one of these characters will fall. This is what leads to the inevitable tragedy. I believe that Medea has more power than Jocasta. She is an outsider, unlike Jocasta who is Greek. Both Medea and Jocasta try to control their fate. The reason Jason married Medea was because she helped him get
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inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lighting than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divisive lightning.” In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the suffering brought upon others in contributed by Oedipus Rex, the tragic hero. When Oedipus was born, his father, King Laius of Thebes, ordered death upon him because Tiresias, a blind prophet, informed King Laius and Queen Jocasta that one day their son will
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Hamartia in Oedipus the King According to the Aristotelian characteristics of good tragedy, the tragic character should not fall due to either excessive virtue or excessive wickedness, but due to what Aristotle called hamartia. Hamartia may be interpreted as either a flaw in character or an error in judgement. Oedipus, the tragic character in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, certainly makes several such mistakes; however, the pervasive pattern of his judgemental errors seems to indicate a basic character
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Oedipus, however, is a contradictory hero, an ambiguous model. Indeed, it represents both superior wisdom and absolute horror. Oedipus is the equivalent of incest. He commits crimes that disrupt the order of the world and that bring plague on the city. So do not think of him as a hero of entity worthy of admiration. Moreover, he is not subject to action, his destiny, he does not control the plot, as one would expect it from a hero. He only submits to the prophecies spoken by the gods, he is only
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the three plays Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Hippolytus by Euripides, there are three prevalent themes. These are the role of the gods, the difference between good and evil and human responsibilities. All three of these tragedies reveal the importance of the role the gods play to mankind. The gods have control over mankind and sometimes use them as pawns to achieve their ambitions; the gods also ensure that each individual’s fate is secured. The tragedies also reveal to
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character Antigone took her own life rather than let her uncle, Creon, have the satisfaction of killing her. Although they may not be attempting to avoid suffering, what they choose to do with their life and fate is up to them. All people possess the right to take their own life and choose their own fate. However, some would argue that suicide is immoral for multiple reasons. Taking one’s life may lead to the
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Kevin Huang Ta 381 Michael Phillips 10/17/17 Oedipus the King During the course of reading for Oedipus the King, the tragic hero Oedipus tries to unravel the mystery but suffers from his actions because of ignorance. Like Oedipus, we all have this primitive fear of the unknown that drives us to search and discover what is out there in the realm of unknown. Seldom do we think about the consequences that follow our primitive drive, because we live in the moment with limited perspective (first
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Antigone Antigone is very much her father’s daughter, and she begins her play with the same swift decisiveness with which Oedipus began his. Within the first fifty lines, she is planning to defy Creon’s order and bury Polynices. Unlike her father, however, Antigone possesses a remarkable ability to remember the past. Whereas Oedipus defies Tiresias, the prophet who has helped him so many times, and whereas he seems almost to have forgotten his encounter with Laius at the three-way crossroads,
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his pride, he will have to change to eventually become a better person. Once he decides to give in to the demands of Leader, he finally goes to release Antigone and allow her to live, but alas, it is too late, the downfall begins. This was the first victim that was caused by the pride of this king was Antigone, “The king was shattered. We took his orders, went and searched, and there in the deepest, dark recesses of the tomb we found her . . . hanged by the neck in a fine linen noose strangled in her
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Wu 1 Derek Wu Professor Hyo Kim English 212 25, February 2013 Open to Interpretation: Plato’s Apology & Sophocles’ Oedipus the King Interpretation of human reality in many eyes can be viewed in numerous, if not countless number of ways. In Plato’s Apology and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King both text are intensely concerned with how human reality seems open to interpretation, and their concerns caused a threat to be overcome in both readings. In both readings their suggested responses is
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