In The Oedipus Cycle the theme of free will vs. fate is thoroughly examined through the tragedies of Oedipus, Jocasta, and several other characters. Sophocles justifies his belief in fate in telling the legend of Oedipus. ... - --Oedipus Rex, Lines 1068-1078 Later, Oedipus and Jocasta have a disagreement over the power and truth of prophecies. ... Oedipus really had no choice but to accept his doom. ... - --Oedipus Rex, Line 606 This is a prime example of how Oedipus' use of free will only continues to fulfill the prophecy. ...

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Oedipus accepts responsibility as a tragic hero, as does Antigone. ... Oedipus" basic flaw is his lack of knowledge of his own identity. ... Take for example a part of the last conversation between Jocasta and Oedipus. ... Oedipus replies, I cannot yield my right to know the truth". ... Antigone, Oedipus" daughter, has much of the same decisiveness as her father did. ...

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However, at the time of Oedipus, the concept was a terrifying reality for most ancient Greeks. ... Fate is most noticeable in Oedipus the King. ... The play unfolds as a murder mystery as Oedipus sets out to find the killer of Laius. ... Both confused and angered by the prohet's accusation, Oedipus orders Tiresias out of the palace. Though at first Oedipus mocks Tiresias, soon he is haunted by two things. ...

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Sophocles' Oedipus, the King is a great representation of Greek tragedy and of the human experience. ... His primary focus as the story begins and progresses is the growth of Oedipus from an unintelligible and unenlightened mentality to its antithesis. ... And, fearing the dreadful prophecy, that the parents nailed their first son's feet together (thus the name Oedipus, which means "swollen-foot-) and left him to die on a lonely moun-tainside outside the city. ... The story begins after some time after Oedipus has taken the throne and when there is a mysterious plague that sweeps ...

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When Oedipus had figured out who he was and what he had done he moved away and cut out his eyes. ... Fate is why Oedipus had killed his father, marry his mother, and then find out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. ... This tells just how bad fate had treated the family of Oedipus. ...

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When Oedipus had figured out who he was and what he had done he moved away and cut out his eyes. ... Fate is why Oedipus had killed his father, marry his mother, and then find out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. ... This tells just how bad fate had treated the family of Oedipus. ...

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Antigone is the sequel to Oedipus and is the story of what happened in Thebes after Oedipus exiled himself. Creon, who is Iocaste's brother, is now the king after the deaths of Oedipus's two sons. ... The Greeks believed strongly in the burial of the dead, even if they were your enemy, so for Creon to defy the burial of Polynices, he was defying the gods, in a similar manner to Oedipus. ... Antigone only follows the rules of the gods, and similar to Oedipus, Creon is defying the gods by putting mans power over gods power. ... Creon was also ignorant towards the gods similar to ...

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As Oedipus showed us, you cannot escape fate no matter how you try. ... You are wrong, most likely, like Oedipus, you will do exactly what was determined, and step right into fate. ... If Oedipus had gone forward in time and seen what he had done, he would have tried to avoid that fate. ... Oedipus tried to change his destiny, but he couldn't. ... Both Oedipus and Creon demonstrated this. ...

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The play Antigone, by Sophocles, is based after the story of Oedipus. ... The shepherd feels sorry for Oedipus and raises him as their own. Without knowing it, Oedipus grows up fulfills the prophecy. When Jocasta and Oedipus find out the truth, she kills herself and he gouges out his eyes. Eteocles and Polyneices, Oedipus's sons, fight over the kingdom. ...

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It is the story of young Antigone, daughter of the late King Oedipus, who is devoted to her brother Polynices. ... Her father, Oedipus, the King of Thebes, could not escape the fate that the oracle predicted for him; he was destined to kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother (Jocasta). Antigone is the product of that ill-fated union between Oedipus and Jocasta. ... Sophocles, Antigone & Oedipus the King, in Antigone, Oedipus, Electra, trans. ...

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Sophocles: The role of Women in the Sophoclean tragedy Every Society differentiates among its members on the basis of sex and almost everyone assigns women an inferior status. Western cultures have taught for generations that certain learned traits are natural to males, like brav...

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Antigone is a daughter of the former king Oedipus. Oedipus was not raised by his original parents, so when he is a man he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. ... When Oedipus becomes aware of his deeds he put out his own eyes, and laid himself down to die. ... After Oedipus is dead, Polyneices and Eteocles battle each other for the thrown. ...

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The Antigone Essay Through "Antigone", the play, Sophocles lets it be known that family is more important than authority. Antigone, Ismene, Creon, and Haemon were a good related family that stood by each other, with the exception of Creon, though there were rough times they all dealt with. C...

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Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the king, and she truly belongs in the high position of princess in the royal family of Thebes. ... She is Oedipus" daughter, which makes her next in line to the throne if anything should happen to her brothers. ...

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The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. ... Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes because of an edict. ...

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The only person who Creon deems worthy enough to give him advice is Tiresias, who was right about Oedipus and his fate due to hubris. At this point, Creon puts his pride away at the end so he does not end up like his brother in law, Oedipus, and listens. ...

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Such is the case in Antigone, both Antigone and Creon is faced with a conflict that entails loyalty to the state of Thebes, loyalty to the house of Oedipus, and most importantly, loyalty to the gods. ... She stood by the house of Oedipus, and more importantly, she adhered to the highest form of the law, that of the gods, as a true hero would....

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When he was younger, and Oedipus ruled, he was an art patron. The death of Oedipus and his sons bound him to the weary duties of rule. ... Oedipus, Antigone and Ismene's father, also had two sons, Eteocles and Polynices. ...

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The Greek playwrite, Sophocles, wrote many exceptional plays. One of these is Antigone. The play is named after Oedipus's daughter, although it is primarily about her Uncle Creon. Creon is the focal point and it is his misjudgment and pride that causes his downfall. Yet, the title of this story ...

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The play starts with the kingdom in absolute chaos due to the death of Polyneices and Eteocles, the two sons of the former king, Oedipus. ... Creon, the brother of Oedipus and uncle to Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone and their younger sister, Ismene ascends the throne as he is the nearest surviving kinsman. ...

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The play Antigone, written by Sophocles, is one play from a serious of tragic plays that all partake in the same consecutive events that are separated in three different parts. The last of the Oedipus Plays is Antigone. The story is set in Thebes during the ancient Greece. Antigone is the daughter o...

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Reading Report Six Sophocles Sophocles was born around 496 BC. He served as treasurer of the imperial league in 443 BC. Sophocles was also one of only ten generals chosen for the war against Samos. In 411 BC, he was selected to be on a special council to ...

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Nora and Antigone, True Tragic Heroines Sophocles" Antigone along with Ibsen's A Doll's House are plays that place the main characters in tough personal situations which must be overcame by personal strength. Both playwrights uncharacteristically use female protagonists, Nora and Antigone, which ...

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In the play "Antigone," Creon has sentenced his son's fiance', Antigone, to death because she has broken the law by burying her brother, Polyneices. Because Creon's son, Haemon, feels that his father is being irrational, Haimon tries to persuade Creon to stop the death of Antigone. Furthermore, Haim...

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Antigone tells the story of a brave girl's struggle to do what is right and the trials she had overcome to accomplish them. The point she wanted to accomplish is that her brother Polyneices deserves a propel burial beneath the earth than to be left out to rot and be eaten by birds and other eart...

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