Oedipus and Batman Great and tragic love is something that happens to everyone in their life time. In the two completely different stories of Oedipus and Batman they both have them same story line. Batman and Oedipus are two different types of heroes but the same when it comes to the archetype theme of tragic forbidden love. In this essay I will explain archetypes‚ themes‚ and what the themes of these stories are. Forbidden love happens in all great stories. Some of the greatest include Titanic
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Oedipus for being in the way. Without thinking or being discriminant‚ Oedipus fights with all five men including the person within the carriage. Results are all five are dead‚ while one soldier escapes to tell of the story which is re told by Jocasta‚ Pillai 5 “ But‚ see now‚ he‚the king‚ was killed by foreign highway robbers at a place where three roads meet-so goes the story.” (OK 714-16) And Oedipus recounts his past when he first arrives at the city‚ “ When i was nearing the branching
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but they’ve already doomed him. For whatever reason they have cursed him and his family to their fate and as he runs “away” from his childhood home he is actually running towards his downfall. After running away‚ Oedipus tells his wife and mother Jocasta that he will‚ “never go near his parents again” (DiYanni 984). This statement is particularly ironic since it is his mother herself who he tells this to. It is within reason to run though. Oedipus does not see it fair to be blamed for an ancestral
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The conflict in the mind Gertrude is a subtle struggle that surfaces in act 3 scene 4 of Hamlet. Gertrude is split between Hamlet‚ and her husband Claudius. Hamlet has clearly been through a struggle with the quick marriage of Claudius and Gertrude and the death of his father. Hamlet’s quest to kill Claudius puts another aspect of the conflict unknown to Gertrude. Gertrude s force to pick between her son or her current husband. This conflict shines a light of the meaning of loyalty. Gertrude’s character
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After reading and analyzing Sophocles’ ancient work during freshman year of both high school and college‚ it is apparent that Oedipus The King is the second work in a trilogy that focuses on a Theban ruler named Oedipus‚ his hamartia‚ and his tragic fall from power. Thebes is ridden with plagues and is terribly cursed by the gods due to the death of the former king‚ Laius (Yeckley). The use of symbols can be found throughout the entirety of Sophocles’ Oedipus The King. Symbolism is when an author
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Comparing Endings In ancient Greece plays were a big part of society. They had festivals to celebrate these plays and crown the best at each of these festivals. Many plays were written and‚ thus‚ many different types of endings were created for them. Sometimes this would entail a technique known as Deus ex Machina. This would involve a god coming in at the end of the play and settling all of the issues. To act this out they would have the actor come down from a crane like machine. Other playwrights
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that upon leaving the Delphic oracle Oedipus would have made himself two unbreakable rules. The first‚ to never kill an older man and the second‚ to never marry an older woman‚ both of which he ultimately ignores when he murdered Lauis and married Jocasta. Vellacott introduces his last main point when Oedipus enters Thebes. He points out that within an hour of arriving Oedipus would have realized that he had killed Laius because Greeks talk about everything. Vellacott’s article clearly highlights several
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be when Laius learnt of the prophecy that he “should die a victim at the hands of his own son”‚ he pierced young Oedipus’ ankles and “had (Oedipus) cast out upon a hillside to die”. If he had not done so‚ Oedipus would have ran away from him and Jocasta‚ just like how he ran away from his adoptive parents in Corinth to avoid the prophecy‚ thus the prophecy would not have come to pass. It is also because of fate that causes his chanced meeting with Oedipus at the crossroads and when he ended up being
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listen to Jocasta and Creon when they try to stop him from finding out the truth about his real life. His stubbornness eventually causes him to blind himself and then he is eternally unhappy and depressed. Ultimately‚ Oedipus deserves what happened to him because that is what he asked for. Oedipus had control over many events in his lifetime‚ but he chose the wrong route in many cases. He chooses to believe the oracle when they describe his faith and leaves Corinth to marry his mother‚ Jocasta‚ and
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taken place. It was a selfish search for an invaluable piece of information to begin with‚ that is why his search for the truth is not beneficial. Also‚ part way through his journey towards his downfall he decides to investigate his own identity. Jocasta advises against it strongly but he ignores her. Him of all people‚ assuming he recognizes that he has killed people in the past‚ has a wife old enough to be his mother and has a prophecy foretold about him that is beyond horrifying‚ chooses to point
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