Whether a person knows the truth about something can determine his/her whole future. The play, Oedipus the King, illustrates that despite all consequences, the truth should be known. ... Trying to follow God's will for the city, he went about finding King Lauis's murderer. ... Oedipus blamed the people whom he once thought to be his parents for what happened to him, saying, "O Polybus, And Corinth, and the old paternal roof I once called mine, with what thin film of honour, Corruption over-skinned...

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Oedipus thought he could control his future by trying to change his destiny. ... At the end of the story, Oedipus admits once again that he was the killer of Laius. ... This shows that Oedipus is a king, and of noble birth. ... He suffers a fall beyond his control because he thought he could change his future. ... He was a king which showed he was in a position of power. ...

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The Harpies were once beautiful maidens, but turned into ugly monster with faces of ugly, old women and taloned feet. ... We can also tell the Greeks had a lot of loyalty for their kings because even though Pelias was the wrongful king of Thessaly, the Thessalonians refused to adopt Jason as their king because of the devotion they had for Pelias. ... We saw this in the case of King Phineus of Bithynia who, because of his ability to predict the future, had been punished by Zeus who had told the Harpies to attack Phineus whenever he had food in his hands. ... It seemed most kingdoms of Gre...

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Little known to him, hearing his future leads him closer to his fate. ... Oedipus believes Apollo's words about his future and leaves Corinth in hopes to change the future, but Sophocles shows how trying to outsmart fate will only lead one to it. ... He trusts Apollo's words and must find the murderer of King Laius in order to rid the city of the plague. ... Once he left Corinth, Oedipus believed he outsmarted his own destiny. ... He begins to doubt the power of Gods in foreseeing one's future. ...

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Once he determines what type of future will fulfill his needs, the limitations that once restricted his potential soon diminish. ... Daedalus, a character from Greek mythology, designs a labyrinth for the king. Daedalus and the king's son, Icarus, are imprisoned, so Daedalus makes plans to escape by making wings for himself. ... Simon Dedalus seems to shift his burden to his son, as the narration implies: " The sudden flight from the comfort and revery of Blackrock, the passage through the gloomy foggy city, [ ] and again an institution or foreknowledge of the future came to him" (p. ...

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No one would doubt Oedipus as a glorious king, especially the King of Suffering. ... They try to shove him off to make the way for the king. ... Oedipus's straightforwardness solved Sphinx's twisted riddle with a direct answer "human" and once again, here comes the riddle of Laois's death. ... With his strong belief in Apollo's prophecy of his dark future, Oedipus makes a wise decision to flee Corinth, leaving his dearest parents and home behind. ... His determination and compassion for Thebans once again hurt Oedipus deep in the heart. ...

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Oedipus the King is written by Sophocles. ... The gods above told him that he would, in his future, kill his father and marry his mother. ... Laius is the king of Thebes at the time of Oedipus' journey. ... The Thebans make him king out of thanks for saving their town. ... Oedipus reveals, "After a painful search I found one cure: I acted at once. ...

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Once they fell in love, Medea fled her family and home country to be with Jason. ... Medea then convinced the daughters of Pelias to kill their own father, the king of Iolcus (Euripides 31). ... The new wife, Glauce, was the daughter of Creon, who was the king of Corinth. ... Jason stated that "It's not for the sake of any woman that I have made this royal marriage, but, as I've already said, to ensure your future, and to give my children brothers of royal blood, and build security for us all" (Euripides 35). ...

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In Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the title character is a returning king who behaves arrogantly and thoughtlessly. ... Jason in Euripides's Medea deserts his family for a new marriage which he hopes will further his station, but his old wife kills his new wife and his children, ending his hopes for a shining future. ... He isn't acting like a very good king, and his people aren't impressed by him. ... No king, no matter how hard he tries, can be a perfect ruler. ... She immediately begins plotting against the lives of her husband, his bride, and his father-in-law the king. ...

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When Oedipus was the prince of Corinth he attended a banquet and heard that he was not the son of the king and queen. ... The oracle told him that he would sleep with his mother and kill his father in the future but never directly told him whether or not the king and queen were his parents. ... In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. ... We had a leader, once, over this land, Called Laius- The man is dead; and now we are clearly bidden to bring to account certain his murders." ... He was only see...

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But once his friend Patroculus gets killed in the war he decides to go back to fight. ... Aristotle's best example of a tragic hero is Sophocles's play "Oedipus of the King", where the hero Oedipus is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. He knows his future, but whatever he does to change it still leads to him killing his father and marrying his mother without even knowing. ... What once symbolized heroes who were half god, half mortal and tragic heroes whose downfall was inevitable; it now signifies modern heroes such as personal heroes and fantasy heroes. ...

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In her poem anthology, The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy introduces a female perspective to the stories of many famous men in history and literature, such as King Herod and Midas. ... When Midas had his wish, of everything he touches turning into gold, granted he felt powerful and delighted, "like a king on a burnished throne". ... Duffy uses language features to evoke sympathy and sadness from readers felt for Mrs Midas and her loss of a lover, and their hopes for the future together. ... These rhetorical questions sound to the reader almost like Medusa is pleading to her...

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She again speaks with a perfect double meaning "let the red stream flow", already foreseeing and anticipating the future. ... Her husband is vain, he believes that he is the "king of all kings men kneel or die", almost like a god, at first he is not oblivious to offending the gods but as the chorus had said before "persuasion, maddening child of ruin overpowers him- ruin plans it all". ... Once the crimes are committed she calls for "no more grief" but her cold premeditation and her infidelity far from exonerate as her secret lover makes an appearance as the man who is cowardly and soft but i...

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In the Theban play "King Oedipus", written by Sophocles there are three characters that are victims to the tragic issue. ... She gets out of line and very arrogant when she says; Then absolve yourself at once. ... Claiming that no man has the power to see the future, and that there is no need to worry about what the gods will do. ...

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Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... Virgil also uses the future tense, for prophecy and prediction. ... In the second half of th...

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