The child, usually a son, develops a desire to kill his father and then pursue the sexual feelings in some way. ... Also, when killing Laius, his father, he was oblivious to what he had done. ... From the time Jocasta and Laius abandoned Oedipus he was only three days old, not to mention the crossroads that have only three paths, or how Oedipus is a son, brother, and father all in one. ... The way Freud examined and explained the ego was primarily the "id" inside the son would be to get rid of the father and have the mother all to him. ... " Last but not least, the "super-e...

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He is implicated in a man versus man conflict, more specifically, the father versus son conflict. ... Kreon's position on a son's role is that he must "stand behind [his] father's judgment in every way./For that reason, men pray to produce/attentive sons in their houses,"(lines 640-642). ... Comparing his son to a woman indicates the extent to which Kreon has lost respect for his own son and how deep of a scar Haemon's rebellion has left. ... The symbol of the double-edged sword refers to the fact that Kreon has lost a son but has gained wisdom and knowledge. ...

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The Greek mythological character Oedipus was the son of Lauis, king of Thebes, and Jocasta. An oracle warned Lauis that if he had a son, his son would kill him. When Oedipus was born, Lauis remembered what the oracle said and pierced his son's ankles with spikes and gave him to a herdsman to leave him on a mountain to die. ... He compared his father to Santa Claus because he only caught glimpses of his father's short occasional visits. One day his father returns home from war and Larry experiences a hard period of adjustment to his father being around. ...

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You"d kill your own son's bride?" ... Haemon's support and respect towards his father is highlighted in the quote "No marriage could ever mean more to me than you..." Accolades are given by Creon for this and he goes so far as to say his son should be "subordinate to [his] father's will in every way." ... Despite Haemon's attempts to sway his father's decision regarding Antigone, saying the "...city mourns for this young girl... Only then does Creon realize his stubbornness and pride were fatal and proclaims "...father and son, the same blood-the misery!" ...

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"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. ... His father had died. ... In the end, the prophet was right and Creon has indirectly killed his beloved son. ... Whereas Creon had the option to either spare Antigone's life and save his son or kill Antigone and his son. ... With the death of Antigone, Creon's son, Haemon, decides to die with his lover, Antigone. ...

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The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. ... Haimon, Creon's son, seek to change his father's mind base on reason. ... But his father tells Haimon that he is too young to make these decisions. ... Then Creon accused his son of selling out to a woman. As Creon sees that his son would rather be on the side of Antigone then obeying his own father, Creon got enrage and declare that Antigone will die in front of Haimon's eyes. ...

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Oedipus had killed his father, king of Thebes, not knowing it was his father and then took over Thebes. ... Fate is why Oedipus had killed his father, marry his mother, and then find out all about it. ... Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. ... In a conversation with his son Haemon, Creon said, "Am I to stand here and be lectured to by a kid? ... This just showed his pride stood in the way of even listening to his own son. ...

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Oedipus had killed his father, king of Thebes, not knowing it was his father and then took over Thebes. ... Fate is why Oedipus had killed his father, marry his mother, and then find out all about it. ... Fate had made Creon new king of Thebes and then have Oedipus' sons kill each other. ... In a conversation with his son Haemon, Creon said, "Am I to stand here and be lectured to by a kid? ... This just showed his pride stood in the way of even listening to his own son. ...

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Here you see the father murdering, the murdered son-and all my civic wisdom." ... Picture this: A daughter passes out and a frantic father takes her pulse. ... Another scenario: A son and his father live alone in a small shack on the side of the road. 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. ...

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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, Haimon has feelings for Antigone which raises his desperation to convince his father. ... Upon arriving, he hears his son's wailing and calls to Haemon. Haimon responds by spitting on his father's face and trying to kill him with his sword. ...

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Iokaste from the beginning of the play knew that her son was destined to kill his father. That is why from the time he was born, and she heard the prophecies she was determined to prevent her son from killing his father and marrying his mother. ... She does not realize that she is the one that put her son in all of his misery. ... This a very strange thing to say because naturally Iokaste should be feeling guilty for what she has done to her son, but instead in her head she doesn't even recognize the fact that it is her son that she once tried to get rid of. ... On the other hand, she ...

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Some would argue that all of his misfortune has been fated by the gods, because of the sins of his father. ... Jocasta reveals that an oracle told her husband that their son would one day kill his father and marry his mother. ... It is adopted as a son by the king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope. ... He explains that he was a prince in Corinth, son of Polybus and Merope. ... If he had not left Corinth, Oedipus would not have met up with his father at the crossroads. ...

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Logically the next step would have to be Haimon, King Kreon's son, and future husband of Antigone. ... It begins when his father declares that Antigone be executed, for attempting to bury her brother. ... He will never look upon his father the same way again and proclaims he will never return to his father's side. ... Thus ending the tragedy he has endured because of the actions of his father. ... These events leave him second-guessing himself and he begins to push his son from his life all together. ...

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This is shown when Oedipus is told "You will murder your father, and lay with your mother.... In Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus is told that "he will murder his father and lay with his mother." ... It is in Thebes where he murders his father and weds his own mother. ... Also in Oedipus Rex, Jocasta and her then husband Laius are told "that your first born son would grow up to kill his own father"(945). ... This can be seen "Apollo was explicit: my son was doomed to kill my husband ". ...

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Oedipus results in acknowledging that he, himself was the murderer of his birth father, Laius, and he himself is also the cause of the plague in Thebes. ... Oedipus is oppressing the fact that he is his own father's murder. ... She said that the Delphic oracle told Laius he would be murdered by his son, while actually his son was cast out of Thebes as a baby and Laius was murdered by a band of thieves. ... Jocasta continues to love Oedipus more as a husband than a son. ... She knew Oedipus ws her son, but didn't say anything about it. ...

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He ran away from all the horrifying prophecies: marring his own mother; breed children with her; to kill his own father. ... Who are your father and mother? ... The oldest son Biff, is disappointed in his father, whereas the youngest son Happy, is satisfied. It is ironic that Willy is a failure but he keeps advising his sons about how to be successful. ... Ironically he was the one to murder him, his father. ...

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Oedipus was not raised by his original parents, so when he is a man he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. ... Then Haimon, the son of Creon and husband to Antigone, enters the story. He pleads with his father to spare the life of Antigone, but is not successful. ... (Her first son Megareus, died in battle defending Thebes). ... I have killed my son and wife. ...

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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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To go against the kings claim and dishonor the law is to die a more shameful death then Antigone's mother and father. ... She says, "For had I lost a son, or lost a husband, Never would I have ventured such an act Against the city's will. ... My husband dead, I might have found another; Another son from him if I had lost A son. But since my mother and father Have both gone to the grave, there can be none Henceforth that I can ever call my brother". To Antigone this is another reason to honor her brother; as she honors her brother she is honoring her mother and father as well. ...

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Eteocles and Polyneceis were sons of Oedipus, and Creon was Oedipus's brother in law. ... "No woman ever faced so unreasonable, so cruel a death for such a generous cause", Haemon told his father, Creon, defending Antigone's stand for burring Polyneceis. ... Though Antigone wasn't the only thing Haemon had lost, he felt he was loosing his father. ... Suddenly, Creon saw things from a new perspective, which was a good thing because he noticed what a bad father and King he was being. ... "Lead me away, A rash weak foolish man, A man of sorrows, who killed you son so blindly, and y...

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If he had known his real parents, he wouldn't have killed his father and married his mother. "I would never have become my father's killer, never have been known to all men as my own mother's husband. Now I am godforsaken, the son of an accursed marriage, my own father's successor in the marriage bed. ... The purpose of this was to make both parents agree to kill their child, for Laius didn't want to be murdered by his son, and Jocasta didn't want to marry her son. ... First, they controlled his fate and led him to murder his father, and marry his moth...

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The play is basically centered on a prophecy that the son of Laius (ruler of Thebes) would murder his father and have sex his mother. This son would later turn out to be Oedipus Rex. Fearful of the prophecy the king had his son sent far away from the kingdom to be murdered. ... The truth that he did murder his father and was sleeping with his mother. ... Secondly he displayed his masculinity when he killed his blood father and most of his guards at the road intersections near Thebes. ...

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King Laius discovered from an oracle that his son would kill him. ... Jocasta conceived their son, but King Laius ordered that the baby boy be taken away to his death and a rod through his ankles. ... The oracle told him that he would one day marry his mother and kill his father. ... Oedipus not knowing what he did, has already killed his father Laius. ... In some cases (Oedipus Syndrome) the females become too attached to their father and desire sexual intent. ...

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Oedipus shows his arrogance in another way when he says, "the Oracle at Delphi has told me my destiny--to be my mother's husband and my father's murderer. ... This angered the gods and in a twist of fate, Oedipus ended up killing his father, marrying his real mother, and fulfilling his destiny. ... "Your father killed his father." (385). ... Oedipus was conversing with shepherd, "the child was in the palace of King Laius . . . the child was called his son." (377). Oedipus was born the son of Laius which made him heir to the throne. ...

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Eventually, he finds out the old man who he killed was his father and the Queen Jocasta was his mother. ... Unfortunately, the death of Antigone caused Creon's son and wife to commit suicide. ... Although he has realized that he made a mistake, but he is still saying that "the fate is too heavy for me" (Watling 17) without any punishment (If the deaths of his son and wife are not enough as a punishment). ... He, himself has no will to leave but to avoid the devastating fate "he was doomed to kill his father, whom he loved"" (Bennett 1). ... He is so scared and worried about the warnings f...

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