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    Did Agamemnon Deserve His Fate? In asking this question we must remember to look at both sides of the ’coin’. On one hand we have Agamemnon’s uncompromising position and his good qualities‚ and on the other‚ we have Clytemnestra and her reasons for killing her husband. We shall start with Agamemnon. The first time we hear of Agamemnon is from the Watchman in the opening scene. He speaks of the feeling of longing he has to take his master’s hand in his. The Chorus are ready to criticize the

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    through and Hamlet will soon discover he has to accept fate. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ Hamlet struggles to notice his life will change and to trust his fate. In Act I and ll is shows his resisting in fate‚ where in Act lll and lV is his turning point where he wants to accept his fate but does not believe. In Act V‚ Hamlet notices he can trust his fate and this was the plan for his life. Hamlet does not want to believe in his fate because he does not want it to be true. When Hamlet

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    testimony to his own character. Hamlet had no control in the death of his father‚ causing Hamlet to find himself obsessed with revenge when he suspects that the man who killed his father was King Claudius. The decision of Hamlet to take action into his own hands leads Hamlet on a prolonged journey to avenge his father’s death‚ however Hamlet’s over analyzation and series of missed chances or opportunities to kill King Claudius‚ proves Hamlet to ultimately be procrastinator who is responsible for his own

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    Oedipus All of Oedipus’ obstacles were an effect of his own actions. It all began when the Oracle at Delphi announced to Oedipus that he was destined to murder his father and marry his mother. He made the decision to escape the life he knew to stop this event from occuring. He was not aware that by doing so he was allowing the prophecy to happen and that he was entering his destiny of tragedy. When all is said and done‚ Oedipus was blind and found guilty for the death of the king of Thebes. Although

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    Escape By Hereward Carrington All day long Orloff had paced his cell. The blackness of the sky outside was equaled only by the blackness of his thoughts. The deep rolling of the thunder reverberated through the thick stone walls of his prison‚ and every now and then a fitful gust of rain swirled through the tiny broken window‚ wetting his face as he stared out into the night. Orloff cursed‚ wiped the water from his face with his grimy fingers‚ and turned to pacing his cell once more.

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    Oedipus the King- Blind To His Own Problems No problem can ever be solved by avoiding‚ hiding or running from it. The best way to solve troubles is to confront them. In the play Oedipus the King‚ the heroine of the story‚ named Oedipus‚ has many troubles. He is looked upon to save Thebes‚ the city of his reign‚ from the terrible plague that has come to it. Throughout the play‚ Oedipus struggles in finding the murderer of King Laius (the prophet Delphi tells Creon that the murderer must be driven

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    tragic fall of Oedipus in Sophocles play "Oedipus Rex" is both self-inflicted and result of events drawn from his own destiny. First off early on in Oedipus ’ life his first deadly mistake towards succeeding his self-inflicted downfall was the murder of his father the former king. In a blind rage without any motive‚ he kills Liaus and his men at a rode crossing. Fate may have had led him to that point but it was his own rage that resulted in his biggest mistake. Further evidence of his self-inflicted

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    Fate and Free Will Fate and free will are two opposing yet connected ideas that play a large role in Oedipus Rex. Fate is the idea in which one’s destiny is predetermined and unchangeable; free will is an opposing concept in which one has the freedom to choose and decide one’s own fate. It seems that fate and free will go hand-in-hand in this tragedy; Oedipus’ parents had the free will to take fate into their own hands. It is a vicious cycle and one in which the characters make decisions to

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    Analysis of Oedipus the King Who is one of the most famous tragic heroes in the world of literature? It can be none other than the main character in Oedipus Rex: Oedipus the King. This is an inspired play written by Sophocles. In the duration of the play‚ a prophet has told that Oedipus is going to kill his father‚ and then marry his mother. Because of this‚ Oedipus faces many problems through the course of his life. But his doomed fate is not the only thing that causes him to fall. Oedipus has three

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    Man The Maker of his Destiny Man The Maker Of His Destiny - We are responsible for what we are‚ and whatever we wish ourselves to be‚ we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions‚ it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; SO WE HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO ACT. Man is man‚ so long as he is struggling to rise above nature‚ and this nature is both internal and external... And if we read the history

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