Specifically, the focus will be on the conflict between father and son. ... The relationship between Creon and Haemon is seemingly too complicated to be considered applicable to the modern relationship between father and son. ... Essentially, the conflict between father and son is created from an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile their opposing views. ... Of course, the figure that presents the greatest threat to the son's desires is his father. ... " The strange feelings that the son has towards his father are made doubly complex by an added fear as a result of his discovery of the ...

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Oedipus has repressed the disturbing memories of killing his father into that part of his psyche, which is his unconscious mind. ... Oedipus, the protagonist of the play, is the birth son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. ... According to Freud, the Oedipus Complex is the desire of a boy to possess his mother and supplant his father. ... She, as widowed wife to King Laius, recalls the story of the visit from an oracle to Laius that told him how his own son would be the one to cause his death, and how in the fear of this fate, Laius bound his three-day-old son's ankles and dispose...

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The story of Oedipus begins with Laius, King of Thebes, who learns from the oracle that his son will kill him and marry his wife Jocasta. When a son is finally born, the king orders his infant to be abandoned, with its feet pierced, on a mountaintop. ... As Oedipus grows up, he learns from an oracle that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Fearing he might kill Polybus, Oedipus sets out towards Thebes where he runs into a man, Laius, whom he kills due to a quarrel, ignorant of the fact that Laius is his father. ... Eventually, Oedipus accepts his fate, admitting that he was the m...

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Most generally it was that it was prophesied that Laios and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, would give birth to a child who would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother. 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. Moreover, that he was found by a wandering shepherd who took him to the nearby city of Corinth where he was adopted by the childless King Polybos and Queen Merope who raised him as a son and prince in t...

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At birth, Oedipus was prophesied to one day kill his father and marry his mother, which scared his parents into having one of their servants tie him up and leave him to die on Mt. ... Oedipus grew up under the care of his foster parents and after he left Corinth and began traveling, he stumbled into and unknowingly killed Laios, the king of Thebes and his long lost father. ... Unfortunately, while telling Oedipus about the king's death, he also revealed that Polybos was not his real father and that one of Laios servants had given him Oedipus as a baby and that he had given Oedipus to Poly...

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Philoctetes does this by describing Neoptolemus in loving and civilised modes of address (son, child, friend). ... Never, son, forget10", this shows Philoctetes concern for the welfare of Neoptolemus and his langue can be seen to be both be eloquent and poetic. ... As the philosopher, Pieper talks about the abuse of language, abuse of power "a lie is the opposite of communication"15 .Odysseus, using seductive language is appealing to Neoptolemus pride in his birth and the desire to live up to his "Phusis16", his inherited virtues or good natures from his father, A...

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The only negative character in this story is Oedipus´ actual father who ordered to have the boy killed and then in a karmic twist got killed by his son as foretold, the rest of the characters have no personal blame for what was to occur. ... He is at first certain that everything is in order and is joyous when his adoptive father dies, nevertheless by the time Jocasta realizes what has happened and runs away into the palace, so does Oedipus but he continues to hang to a thread until the shepherd finally clarifies everything. ...

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He deviates from morality or from a full knowledge of his situation, and his deviation destroys him .In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex the hero is a good-hearted but headstrong young man who kills his own father and marries his mother without knowing that they are his parents. ... Characteristic of the tragic catastrophe is the fact that not only the protagonist comes to be destroyed, but very often innocent people are also involved in the tragic happenings and lose their lives (for example, Creon's son and wife in "Antigone".) ...

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