Study Guide Pgs. 1-28 Oedipus the King by Sophocles Translated by Bernard Knox Characters: * Oedipus- King of Thebes; saved the Thebans from the sphinx by solving the riddle. Son of Lauis and Jocasta‚ his name means “swollen footed”. * Priest of Zeus- asks for Oedipus’s help on this plague in Thebes. * Creon- brother of Jocasta and he was sent by Oedipus to the oracle of Apollo to figure out a way to stop this plague. * Chorus- the citizens of Thebes * Tiresias- blind prophet
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X are seen as unprecedented heroes of the Civil Rights movement. They relentlessly campaigned for equality between blacks and whites. Through their powerful leadership and strategic rhetoric they became Messiah like figures and generated a huge following throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Although the rhetoric of Martin and Malcom had an enormous impact on the progress of the civil rights movement‚ we should not romanticize these men. Despite
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The King of Kong: A fistful of Quarters. The King of Kong: A fistful of Quarters provided many techniques and insights into interviewing different people. This documentary profiled people and showed how they had become the people they were in there everyday lives. Many times it showed previous achievements or failures and how they directly affected a persons will to succeed in the future. At the beginning of this film‚ Billy Mitchell was introduced as the successful gamer of the 80’s that everyone
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the plot. Even though he wrote 123 plays‚ he is mostly famous for his three plays concerning Oedipus and Antigone: these are often known as the Theban plays or The Oedipus Cycle. One of these plays is “Oedipus the King”‚ which will be discussed throughout this essay. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus learns‚ as the story unfolds‚ that he committed both patricide and incest. Sophocles’ use of dramatic irony emphasizes how limited human understanding is and the pain and suffering that is created due to
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King Bantam King Bantam is T.A.G Hungerford’s autobiography‚ which was published in 1983. This autobiography is written as a short story and it is about his childhood and the mischievous innocence that it contains. The text conveys the idea that children don’t purposefully do bad things because they are too innocent to know what’s right and wrong. Another idea presented is that motherly love usually foreshadows the mistakes of their children. Hungerford presents these ideas through the use of
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It’s an important milestone in history everywhere not only the United States. Some appreciation seems justified. The eight foot statue of Benjamin Franklin that stands in front of Boston’s French Second Empire Style Old City Hall has been there since 1856. It was Boston’s first public statue of a person. This piece of art has been there for centuries. Not only is this statue representing history‚ it has now become history itself. Not only that‚ but it was one of Boston’s firsts. Meaning that this sculpture
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The Barbarian King The Goths are known for their sack of Invicta Roma or unconquered Rome. While it is impossible to overestimate the significance of the impact of the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410‚ the collapse of Rome would mark the collapse of an 800-year-old‚ undefeated force. For the Goths to sack Rome‚ a strong leader was required. This leader came in the form of Alaric I. Alaric provided a unifying presence uniting the Goths to stand up against perceived mistreatment by the Romans. Could
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Louis XIV known as the sun king was born 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715 to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. Louis ruled as the king of France from 1643-1715. Louis ruled as the absolute monarch for72 years and 110 days. After king Louis XIII died Louis XIV was crowned king at age 4. During the first few years of Louis reign anne introduce policies that told about his power as a monarch. Beginning in 1648 a civil war broke out known as the Fronde‚ which led the royal family to flee Paris.
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Powers of the king.—The King‚ Louis XVI‚ was absolute. He ruled by the divine right theory which held that he had received his power to govern from God and was therefore responsible to God alone. He appointed all civil officials and military officers. He made and enforced the laws. He could declare war and make peace. He levied taxes and spent the people’s money as he saw fit. He controlled the expression of thought by a strict censorship of speech and press. By means of lettres de cachet (sealed
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Susan Hill has mentioned that to her ‘settings are very very important to me.’ The settings in ‘I’m the King of the castle’ beautifully portrays on how the character feels and thinks‚ she does this by having lucid themes that show emotions of the characters reflecting onto the theme. This means the reader can feel the atmosphere seemingly throughout the novel. In the novel there is one main theme of which is based around hatred between hooper and Kingshaw. straight from the start of when they
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