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. ... Creon returns to Thebes and Oedipus accuses him of staging the prophecy that says Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother in order to over throw the throne. ... Oedipus, now all but mad from the realization that he did infect kill his father and marry his mother, enters the palace and discovers that Jocasta h...

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While Antigone is not portrayed as the radical, polar opposite of a stereotypical tender, loving woman, she still possesses the stable heroic qualities that differentiate her from the fragility of a tender, loving woman. ... She arranges how King Duncan will be killed, how his guards will be distracted, and how even the knives used will be from the guards. ... Though she does not kill King Duncan in the end, it is her ability to employ sinister, evil thoughts for her fell purpose without succumbing to horror, guilt, and regret that differentiates her from the stereotypical acquiescent woman....

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The death of Antigone lead Haemon to commit suicide which in turn lead his mother to do the same. ... /Look: the killer and kill, a father and son.... This idea is summed up nicely by the quote: "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it" (william pitt, the elder, British Prime Minister 1766 to 1778). ...

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Fate is why Oedipus winds up killing his own father and eventually ended up marrying his own mother and then later on he found out about all of this. ... I killed you. I killed you my dear"(1078-1079). ... Antigone possesses the qualities everyone admires. ...

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