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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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"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. ...

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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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Oedipus has repressed the disturbing memories of killing his father into that part of his psyche, which is his unconscious mind. ... According to Freud, the Oedipus Complex is the desire of a boy to possess his mother and supplant his father. This complex is roundly exhibited in the play 'Oedipus Rex', where Oedipus does end up murdering his birth father and marrying his birth mother, Jocasta. ... 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 fa...

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Major Characters Antigone Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, late king of Thebes. ... When he found out Antigone's sentence, he tries to change his father's mind. He realized that his father will not listen and commits suicide. ... In the story Antigone buries her brother. ...

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