Sophocles‚ Oedipus is doomed to fail in life from the very beginning. Like all tragic heroes Oedipus is destined to suffer and fall. When Oedipus was a child Oedipus’s parents‚ Laius and Jocasta (the king a Queen of Thebes)‚ got news from an oracle that their son is going to kill his father and marry his mother. Laius and Jocasta try to prevent this from happening by giving their son to one of Laius’s servants and tell him to leave Oedipus on Mount Cithaeron with his feet pinned together. They do this because
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A chorus in a Greek tragedy is fundamental however in modern plays it is no longer a crucial element. The chorus consists of a small group of people‚ usually between twelve and fifteen‚ who account the events of the play‚ and foreshadow its development. They are meant to act as a character but are positioned away from the main action. As a character‚ the chorus has many functions; it interacts with other characters‚ and gives its opinion on the situations without regard to the chance of their opinion
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said “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you”. The relationship between Claudius and Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare’s tragedy “The Tragedy Of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark”‚ is anything but love. Rather‚ it is clear throughout the play that their marriage is not even platonic but strictly political. Evidence of this is strewn throughout the play as Gertrude reveals that she regrets the marriage‚ Claudius shows no consideration for his wife‚ and lastly‚ the promptness of
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een Jocasta of Thebes try to elude this inevitable curse by turning the infant over to a loyal servant‚ a Theban shepherd‚ to take Oedipus to "a woody dell of Cithaeron" to be killed (63). After riveting his ankles together and leaving him to die of the lements‚ the old shepherd has a change of heart and hands the child over to a traveling shepherd from Corinth to take back to the childless King Polybus and Queen Merope to raise as their own son. For the next twenty years‚ Laius and Jocasta rule
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afford him the opportunity to kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. In Oedipus Rex‚ the King and Jocasta try to ignore the prophecy of the gods. Ironically‚ they like Oedipus play into fate’s hands by trying to escape it. Jocasta thinks that she has killed her son which is the act that brings him to her later as her husband. When Oedipus for example‚ hears that his father is still alive‚ ironically‚ he like Jocasta feels that the oracle has failed and he has escaped his
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The Portrayal of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet In many of William Shakespeare’s works‚ it is evident that Shakespeare is alluding the lack of intelligence and weakness of women. “Frailty‚ thy name is woman” (1.2.146)‚ quoted by Shakespeare in Hamlet is an example of this. In Hamlet‚ Shakespeare depicts characters like Ophelia and Gertrude as demonstrating weakness and being tools of manipulation by the males in their lives. Their actions and fates are greatly influenced by the men’s decisions and
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explains to Jocasta that he was told that he “was fated to to lie with my [his] mother and show to daylight an accursed breed which men would not endure‚ and I [he] was doomed to be murderer of the father that begot me [him]. When I heard this I fled” (Sophocles 45‚ 1.792-4). Ironically the pride which caused him to attempt to avoid his fate‚ put him on a path to it. On his trip away from Corinth‚ he unknowingly met with his father‚ King Laius. When Oedipus tells Jocasta of his encounter
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happy until the day he carries his happiness to the grave in peace." The role of fate and destiny‚ and the impact of the prophecy is further seen when the reward for the person who destroys the pestilence brought on by the riddling sphinx is Jocasta‚ Laius’s wife and Oedipus’s mothers‚ hand in
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kill his father and marry his mother‚ so he then fled from Corinth to not carry out the prophecy. At a crossroad he came felt threatened by another caravan‚ and his men killed them in self-defense. One of the men was Laius‚ and he was married to Jocasta who is now Oedipus’s wife and mother. A plague was ravishing the Theban population and to try to end the plague‚ he sent his brother in-law Creon to the oracle to figure out how to end the plague. Creon was told “Drive the corruption from the land
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Hamlet Timed Writing In Hamlet‚ Gertrude is portrayed to be not as loyal to Hamlet as a mother should be. Hamlet is a scholar and a philosopher‚ searching for life’s most elusive answers. Gertrude is shallow‚ and thinks only about her body and external pleasures. Like a child she wants to be delighted. Gertrude is also a very sexual being‚ and it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her. The Ghost gives Hamlet‚ who is already disgusted with his mother for marrying his uncle
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