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. ... Then, when he arrived at Thebes, he met the Sphinx, a monster who guarded the gates of the city and correctly answered its riddle and was rewarded with the title of king of Thebes and was given the hand of the re-cently widowed queen, Jocasta. ... In his despair, he blinds himself, and Jocasta hangs herself. ...

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Teiresias, Jocasta, and the herdsman tried to stop him from pursuing the truth. Take for example a part of the last conversation between Jocasta and Oedipus. After realizing that the prophecy had came true, Jocasta begs him to let the mystery go unsolved for once. ...

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The first, that Jocasta, the queen, explained that a prophet once told her that Laius, her husband, would die at the hands of their son. Though Jocasta rejects this prophecy, Oedipus is distressed, because just before he arrived in Thebes, he killed a man that resembled Laius. ... Once he knows that the man that Jocasta describes and the man that he killed are in fact the same person, the king is terrified, and cries, "I have a terrible fear the blind seer can see" (822). ...

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In The Oedipus Cycle the theme of free will vs. fate is thoroughly examined through the tragedies of Oedipus, Jocasta, and several other characters. ... Jocasta is representative of those who believe we control our own lives through free will. ... - --Oedipus Rex, Lines 1068-1078 Later, Oedipus and Jocasta have a disagreement over the power and truth of prophecies. Jocasta attempts to comfort Oedipus by saying that oracles are meaningless. ...

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According to the myth, King Laios and his wife Jocasta visit an oracle. ... After learning this, Laios and Jocasta gave Oedipus to a shepherd with the instructions to kill him. ... When Jocasta and Oedipus find out the truth, she kills herself and he gouges out his eyes. ...

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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). Antigone is the product of that ill-fated union between Oedipus and Jocasta. ...

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Sophocles: The role of Women in the Sophoclean tragedy Every Society differentiates among its members on the basis of sex and almost everyone assigns women an inferior status. Western cultures have taught for generations that certain learned traits are natural to males, like brav...

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Nora and Antigone, True Tragic Heroines Sophocles" Antigone along with Ibsen's A Doll's House are plays that place the main characters in tough personal situations which must be overcame by personal strength. Both playwrights uncharacteristically use female protagonists, Nora and Antigone, which ...

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