TRAGEDY ESSAY Over the course of time, many things tend to change significantly. Such is the case of tragic literature and the cathartic effect it has on the reader, which has deteriorated a great deal from Sophocles" writing of the true tragedy, Oedipus. ... The classic tragedy, Oedipus tells the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus who foolishly tries to challenge fate and evade prophecy, which proclaimed that he would murder his father and marry his mother. ... Before the palace of Thebes, when the prophet Teiresias had accused Oedipus of murdering Thebes" previous king, Laius, Oedipus" pri...

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In all tragedies the hero suffers, and usually dies at the end. ... In every tragedy, the characters must displays some. ... In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. ... How could he have any pleasure during the rest of his life, with his parents and Ophelia dead. ... He had a choice of how he would deal with Claudius, and like other tragic hero's made a decision. ...

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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. ... In Oedipus of Colonus, Sophocles illustrates these qualities that Antigone possesses. ... Without a female role model to show her how a woman is supposed to act, there is no one to raise her as a woman. ... Therefore, most of the narrator's comments are related to how the characters move on stage, and how the stage itself looks like; "They start to walk about the stage. ... This quote, when read again a...

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Dilly, Dally, Fatal Finale William Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy Hamlet is truly a work of art. ... He wants the murder of the King to be perfect. ... As Edward Wagenknecht puts it, "this is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind." ... He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven. ... Some critics attribute Hamlets inability to act to an Oedipus complex. ...

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In all tragedies the hero suffers, and usually dies at the end. ... In every tragedy, the characters must displays some. ... In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. ... How could he have any pleasure during the rest of his life, with his parents and Ophelia dead. ... He had a choice of how he would deal with Claudius, and like other tragic hero's made a decision. ...

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Hamlet is a revenge tragedy of Elizabethan drama, written in about 1602 by William Shakespeare. ... In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... Because of this tendency, psychologists have concluded that Hamlet must have suffered from an Oedipus complex (pinkmonkey.com). According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedip...

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Shakespeare's 17th Century revenge tragedy differs greatly to the other texts, mainly because it is set within the court so all relationships are portrayed to have political influences. ... Nonetheless, whether Gertrude lacks the Familial love Hamlet craves, or was too self involved to give it; it has a negative effect on Hamlet as it causes his passionate hatred for the new King. ... She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Perhaps Kazan portrays her guilt like this is to evoke pathos amongst th...

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