His downfall is foreshadowed early on in the story. ... Through this he becomes king, his father's position, and marries his mother, the Queen of Thebes. All is ironic in the story of Oedipus. ... Alas, the ultimate irony is at the close of the story when he gauges his own eyes out. ... He is too upset about what he has done to his daughters, or to his sisters for that matter, to want to see anymore. ...
The story that best proves this idea is the story of Agamemnon and his wife Clytemestra and their doomed marriage that ends in an affair and murder. ... Orestes, after being sent away for seven years, Came back to avenge his fathers death. ... As a result, her daughter Lavinia was constantly neglected by her mother, which cause hostility between the two. ... In turn she and the lover are killed themselves by the vengeful son and daughter. ... Mourning Becomes Electra and Electra the daughter. ...
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. ... "Antigone" is the recollection of his two daughters, Antigone and Isemene, of how their two brothers died. ... He pleads with his father to spare the life of Antigone, but is not successful. ... Therefore, I think that her presence in this story is essential. ...
It was written by Aeschylus who is often called "Father of Tragedy" in literature. ... He presented audiences with the "second actor" for more complex stories. ... Who would kill their daughter for own selfish victories? ... Zeus allows him to be taken because Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter for his own well-being as well as displaying excessive pride simultaneously. ... Most tragic characters in Greek stories do die or feel the emotional pain of death. ...
At the end of this tragic story, when Oedipus gouges out his eyes, it shows his willingness to accept his responsibility. ... However, in Sophocles" Oedipus at Colonus, he seems to pity himself greatly, and also his daughters, understandably. ... Antigone, Oedipus" daughter, has much of the same decisiveness as her father did. ... Unlike her father, however, Antigone has the 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, Antigone ...
Oedipus asks tiresias, "Was it Creon, or you, who has invented this story?" ... He is constantly trying to find something, or anything to fuel his belief that he is not the son who kills his father, and falls in love with his mother. ... Why then, Jocasta, should we study Apollo's oracle, or gaze at the birds screaming over our heads-those prophets who announced that I would kill my father? ... Considering that this was Oedipus's last time being with his daughters, you would expect something more loving, and emotional. Anyhow, his last talk with his daughters deffinately summed up ho...
The story is actually told to Telemachus from Menelaus when he visits while searching for any news or whereabouts of his father Odysseus. ... The moral of the story is also a great contrast to that of Odysseus and his own situation with his own wife Penelope. Because the story that is told to Telemachus from Menelaus is very broad and short lasting only a couple lines, I will be adding some content to elaborate the overall story a little more to better fit the Aristotelian definition of tragedy. ... Her daughter Electra will also be in the episode as well as a chorus, messenger, Aegisthus and...
It is hard to justify killing one's own daughter so that somebody else can get his wife back. ... The people, however did condemn his decision to kill his daughter. ... He exposes himself as his father's murderer and his mother's lover. ... She is foreshadowing the theme of the story and Euripides is voicing his message plainly through her. ... She immediately begins plotting against the lives of her husband, his bride, and his father-in-law the king. ...
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. ... As Oedipus grows up, he learns from an oracle that he will kill his father and marry his mother. ... Through Oedipus" determination to seek the murderer, the shepherd who "rescued" Oedipus the baby comes forth, revealing his story, which leads to the downfall of Oedipus. ... Oedipus then proceeds to ask Creon, who is happy to oblige, to look after his daughters, Antigone and Ismene. ... As a result, he gashes out his eyes, loses his kingdom as well a...
Hamlet Prince of Denmark, a Shakespearean tragedy, tells the story of a young man, by the name of Hamlet, who gained the knowledge of a terrible incident that his kingdom had suffered. ... Hamlet is considered as Shakespearean victim, Hamlet is a complex story of revenge, the lack of love, and the "madness" of Hamlet. ... Laura, she is the crippled and very shy daughter of Amanda who keeps her hard pressed to finding a husband. ... A sort of role reversal takes place between her and her father. She takes the position of the father and head of the family while her blind, helpless father acts...
In the tragic story of Antigone, she picks family over the law because she knows deep down inside that it is morally right. ... Picture this: A daughter passes out and a frantic father takes her pulse. ... Thinking only of his daughter's health the father rushes to the car and drives at 100 miles per hour to the hospital. ... The father is very ill and there is no money for medical care or food. The son steals a ham to bring home to his dying father. ...
In the stories "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone", many actions turn out to have peripeteia outcomes. "Oedipus Rex", by John Bennett and Moira Kerr, is a story about a young man named "Oedipus", son of the Corinth, who attempts to escape his fate of killing his father. ... Watling, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, wants to give her traitorous brother, Polynices, a proper burial. ... Right now Oedipus is doing the only thing he can do to help save his father. ... His father had died. ...
The characters are stock - identifiable, simplified social types, such as a miserly father or a nagging mother-in-law. ... As the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is called the father of Greek tragedy. ... The earliest is The Suppliants, a drama with little action but many choral songs of great beauty it is believed to be the first play of a trilogy about the marriage of the 50 daughters of Danaus, which included the plays The Egyptians and The Danads. ... The remaining three plays, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, produced in 458 BC, form the trilogy known as ...
As Oedipus gave Creon this prayer, "Give me a life wherever there is opportunity to live, and better than was my father's" (Sophocles, 1702-1704), this prayer Oedipus conveys provides the humility he has towards his family's future and his village. ... One theme throughout the course of Oedipus' life is; anyone can be a father, it takes a good man to be dad. Despite Oedipus' immorality; by unknowingly marrying his mother and killing his father, he loved his two daughter, Antigone and Ismene. ... He demonstrated qualities of a caring and concerned leader, accepted...
It is the story of young Antigone, daughter of the late King Oedipus, who is devoted to her brother Polynices. ... Antigone is fated to follow in the footsteps of her doomed father. 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). ...
"Sons and daughters of Thebes, behold: this was Oedipus, Greatest of men; he held the key to the deepest mysteries; Was envied by all his fellow-men for his great prosperity; Behold, what a full tide of misfortune swept over his head, Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending, And none can be called happy until the day when he carries His happiness down to the grave in peace." (77) The last lines in the Exedos presented here from Oedipus the King, which was written by the tragedian Sophocles, explicitly reveals the theme to be learned from this tragedy. .....
The story of Antigone written by Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic flaw of pride. ... Creon's son Haemon does not want his wife to be to be put to death and pleads with his father. " I see my father offending justice wrong. ... That's dreadful too."" (1296) King Creon realizes to little to late and because of his pride he loses his son, wife, and daughter in law. ... -(1301) Antigone is an honorable character in this story of love and rebellion. ... This story of Antigone shows that pride can be both a good quality and it can also ruin someone. ...
The story of Antigone written by Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic flaw of pride. ... Creon's son Haemon does not want his wife to be to be put to death and pleads with his father. " I see my father offending justice wrong. ... That's dreadful too."" (1296) King Creon realizes to little to late and because of his pride he loses his son, wife, and daughter in law. ... -(1301) Antigone is an honorable character in this story of love and rebellion. ... This story of Antigone shows that pride can be both a good quality and it can also ruin someone. ...
The things that shape Oedipus throughout the story are what make him this thing we call a tragic character. ... Father? ... His daughters weep for him but are taken away. ... At the beginning he was King and glorified and now he is the incestuous son who killed his own father. ...
The play Antigone, by Sophocles, is based after the story of Oedipus. ... He tells them that their newborn son, Oedipus, will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. ... Antigone, a daughter of Oedipus, cannot live to see her brother die without a proper burial. ... Haimon sits with Antigone, crying out that his father has taken her away from him. ... He ends up losing his wife, his son, and his future daughter-in-law. ...
This flaw had an important and intriguing effect on the story. ... Oedipus" flaw had a tremendous effect on the entire story in many ways. ... Antigone and his other daughter were also greatly affected by his actions. They would no longer be viewed to be suitable for marriage by any man that knew of the fate of their father. ...
His father was a wealthy business man and an active politician. Despite his father's prestige and power in the state, Sophocles was drawn to the arts. ... In the story, Oedipus is desperatley seeking peace, a home and burial outside of Thebes. ... Creon tries to separate Oedipus from his two loyal daughters, Ismene and Antigone. ... Point of View: Sophocles wrote the story for an Athenian Greek audience. ...
Oedipus, when faced with the knowledge that he killed his birth father and married his birth mother, turns self destructive. ... Jason fell in love with the daughter of Kreon, the king of Corinth, and left Medea in order to wed the princess. ... Medea has decided that she will end the lives of her two children as well as Kreon and his daughter. ... The messenger then bears the news that the princess, as well as her father, is dead. ... As he relays the events to her, she begins to tell a story. ...
"I am your son, father. ... ANTIGONE: Thebes, and you my father's gods, And rulers of Thebes, you see me now, the last Unhappy daughter of a line of Kings, Your kings, led away to death. ... It is Sophocles' story of family honor and family bonds versus loyalty to the state and the law. ... By the end of the story, Creon becomes convinced that his actions were not the right thing to do. These relationships and the changes and insights the characters experience pull the reader into the story. ...
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...
