"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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Unoka, Okonkwo's father, was lazy, gentle, and incredibly poor. ... When he begins to see his father's qualities within his own son, Nwoye, he begins to distress that is not indeed "like father, like son," but, "like grandfather, like grandson." ... Okonkwo is relieved when his son begins to become manlier under the influence of his newly adopted son named Ikemefuna. ... At the funeral, tension and evil build upon itself as Okonkwo shoots the village elder's son and is sentenced to exile for seven years. ... He was either to become his father as so many of us do, or die avoi...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oedipus grew up in Corinth, but left when an oracle predicted that he would kill his father and marry his mother. After leaving his faults were revealed in great magnitude when he kills a man, who was actually his father and king of Thebes, and arrogantly defeated the infamous Sphinx. After settling in Thebes and becoming king, Oedipus hired a prophet named Teiresias to find Laius's killer but became furious when he prophesies that Oedipus was the true murderer of his father, and that he is his wife's son and that he will leave Thebes in shame. ... But, Oedipus was also a good man, ...

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Oedipus grew up in Corinth, but left when an oracle predicted that he would kill his father and marry his mother. After leaving his faults were revealed in great magnitude when he kills a man, who was actually his father and king of Thebes, and arrogantly defeated the infamous Sphinx. After settling in Thebes and becoming king, Oedipus hired a prophet named Teiresias to find Laius's killer but became furious when he prophesies that Oedipus was the true murderer of his father, and that he is his wife's son and that he will leave Thebes in shame. ... But, Oedipus was also a good man, ...

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The downfall of Oedipus seems to improve with the news of his fathers death, this means that Oedipus did not kill his father. The tables turns when Oedipus and Jocasta come to the realization that they are mother and son. ... Many scenes pass by with clues being thrown at Oedipus, telling him that he is the killer of Lauis and the son of his wife; but Oedipus does not put the pieces of the puzzle together in time. Throughout the play Oedipus is unaware that the stories he tells are only proving that he is in fact the beholder of the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother. ...

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However, because Oedipus forsakes the God's by killing his father and sleeping with his mother, he is not worthy of being King. Oedipus admits this much when he discovers the truth from the chorus about who killed his father and who Iocasta really is: So had I not come to shed my father's blood, nor been called among men the spouse of her from who I sprang, but now am I forsaken of the gods, son of a defiled mother, successor to his bed who gave me mine own wretched being: and if there be yet a woe surpassing woes, it hath become the portion of Oedipus. ...

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As the epic begins, King Lauis and Queen Jocasta of Thebes are told that their son is fated to murder his father and marry his mum. ... Because bother of Oedipus's sons are dead from the war where they killed each other, Creon assumes the throne. ... As a result, not only does Antigone die, but so does Creon's son Haimen. ...

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Oedipus is already setting himself up for trouble because the king is actually his father. ... The prophecy says that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. ... Jocasta (Oedipus" mother) tries to keep believing that Polybus is Oedipus" father. ... She does not want to admit that she has been involved in an incestuous relationship with her son. ... After he kills his father that is when his horrible fate begins. ...

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The oracle says that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, therefore his parents attempt to abandon him. ... Through this he becomes king, his father's position, and marries his mother, the Queen of Thebes. ... He says the following quote after his true destiny is revealed to him: "I'd never come to this, my father's murder -- never been branded mother's husband, all men see me now! Now, loathed by the gods, son of the mother I defiled coupling in my father's bed, spawning lives in the loins that spawned my wretched life. ...

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Oedipus is known throughout the world for two reasons, he killed his own father and married his mother. ... Oedipus as a woman would not have been struck by the man in the carriage, who happens to be Laius, king of Thebes and Oedipus" biological father. In turn the prophecy of Oedipus killing his father would not have been fulfilled. ... If Oedipus was a woman, hence ending the prophecy of killing his father and marring his mother, she would not have suffered the same tragic and violent fate if she were a he. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus" mother and wife, Jocasta, is so stricken with horror when...

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Grotesque actions committed by Oedipus, such as murdering his own father and marrying his own mother, were not done purposely nor wittingly. ... The following quote is said by Oedipus, to the Thebans, when they learn about the "cursed polluter", "I make this proclamation: if anyone of you knows whose hand it was that killed Laius, the son of Labdacus, let him declare it fully, now, to me." (line 223-226) This quote proves that Oedipus is unaware that he is the murderer of king Laius; his father. ... For example, from the various paths in the forests that Oedipus could have taken while leavi...

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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. ... Oedipus" extended curse against his two sons embodies these two conflicting forces in the climax. In it, Oedipus addresses his sons" betrayal of him and greed for power over Thebes. ... His two sons have betrayed him and his wife is long dead. ...

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According to this logic, her discussion to marry Oedipus, even after the oracle stated that she will marry her son who will kill her husband, was inevitable. When she finally becomes aware that Oedipus, her husband, is also her son she is horrified [1060-1061]. ... This is evident in the fact that even though Oedipus knew from the oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He was still unable to predict that Polybus was not his father, and that Laius was. ... The people who he thought were his parents were not really his parents, and the man that he killed was really a king, an...

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"Oedipus: A Tragic Hero" In Sophocles" "Oedipus Rex," a tragic play about a king who killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus plays a tragic hero who has a destiny determined by the Greek God's. ... For example, he wanted to find his parents no matter what he had to do to find out whose son he really was. ... For example, when Apollo said that the murderer of Lais had to die in order for the plaque to end, Oedipus killed himself because he knew he had killed Lais, his own father. ...

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He has great outward vision which inabled him to solve the riddle of the sphinx but he lacks inward vision which is why he can not figure out that he is the killer of the king which was also his father. ... They do this to save there own lives and there son form a life of shame. ... When he hears that one day he will kill his father and marry with his mother he is horrified. ... What if the king and queen of Thebes would have kept their son. ...

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Though not as horrible as the life that her son / husband will be living after his violent reaction to the terrifying news of his fulfillment of the prophecy cast upon him by Apollo; Iocaste's death signifies the punishment that Apollo placed upon her for trying to change the fate of her and her husband's life -- trying to kill her own baby boy-Oedipus. ... (p.69) as he had taken his father's life "...I struck him in my rage...swinging my club ... ... He could not live knowing that he had killed his father and fathered his mother's children, yet, he was not about to let him...

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