This belief can easily be applied to the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles. ... And I pray may I suffer the same things which I have just called down upon others" (Sophocles, 82-83). ... Also, Oedipus said that "Our health (with the gods help) shall be made certain - or our ruin" (Sophocles, 80). ... It is futile" are the words Iocasta said to Oedipus (Sophocles, 103). ... Oedipus offends Tieresias by calling the seer a "tricky quack" (Sophocles, 98). ...

• Word Count: 1136
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Sophocles seemed to be trying to teach a lesson of some sort but what the lesson was I am unsure. ... On a more ideal train of thought, Sophocles could be trying to teach us all that our fate is what we make of it and in the end we reap what we sow. ...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When you think of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, you tend to think of how the tragedy and prophecy could have easily been avoided, the events that led to the tragedy, and how the characters unwittingly played a role in the unfolding of the prophecy. ... Maybe these questions were asked by Sophocles. ...

• Word Count: 785
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the play "Oedipus the King" Sophocles depicts Oedipus' inevitable downfall, which represents man's struggle between free will and fate. In an attempt to use the audience's knowledge to his advantage, Sophocles opens the play seventeen years after Oedipus murders his father, Laius and marries his mother, Jocasta. ...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Choices of Freewill The events in Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, show the overwhelming relationship of man's free will existing within the limits of fate. ... In order for Sophocles" Greek audience to relate to the tragic hero, he has to have some type of tragic flaw, in this case many. ...

• Word Count: 852
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the plays "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone", there is one reoccurring theme, which is represented in numerous ways. This theme is justice, but whether to follow the laws of man or the laws of the gods is a different matter. Apollo is the god of truth, light, medicine, and intelligence, being mentioned...

• Word Count: 984
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

All heroes reach their fate not through weakness, but through strength. Is this true of Oedipus? In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the main character Oedipus is seen to follow his prophesized fate, which ends in his downfall. Strangely, it cannot however be said that the course of this hero...

• Word Count: 859
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this story, Sophocles may have been trying to show us that the outcomes of our lives are predetermined, but the truth is that people's free will is the ultimate deciding factor in our destinies. ...

• Word Count: 729
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Gods can be evil sometimes."" In the play "Oedipus the King-, Sophocles defamed the gods' reputation, and lowered their status by making them look harmful and evil. It is known that all gods should be perfect and infallible, and should represent justice and equity, but with Oedipus, the gods decide...

• Word Count: 1081
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Sophocles" King Oedipus, civil justice, poetic justice, and rough justice all exist in the world of the play to the extent that divine justice is served in the end, and ultimately, the wishes of the gods, who are wary of individuals with the most fortune and power, are fulfilled. ...

• Word Count: 1019
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As in any great tragedy, the story of Oedipus is rife with heartbreaking irony. In "Oedipus the King," Sophocles provides the reader with an interesting contrast between the truth as defined by the gods and their oracles and the truth as defined by Oedipus himself. It is Oedipus' interpretation of ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate