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    going to marry his mother and killing his father. He ran away from his house because of the oracle so he does not have a proper kid life growing up. Oedipus thinks he has all of the power because he think he beat the oracle and sphinx riddle. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus and others suffer because of his self-centeredness and his irreverence. Oedipus thinks that he is caring about everyone in the city‚ but he is only caring about himself‚ in reality. Oedipus has an act of only thinking about

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    Socrates believed very strongly in the presence of a universal truth and it is mirrored very clearly in these works of Sophocles. With the many Greeks who would come to the theatre to watch these famous plays‚ it would seem illogical that none of the audience would be affected by the deeper message in the play. Although many people supported the views of people such as Socrates and Sophocles‚ the culture as a whole could have benefitted from the views being the most popular. Maybe‚ but just maybe‚ Greece

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    intention of evoking a rare and unusual emotion in every person to create an effect. In this case‚ it is more about what the audience receives from this play and how they construe the act themselves. All of this applies to the tragic play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. I would like to focus on audience viewing Oedipus as a powerless man when it comes to handling the tragic fate he has been prescribed from a young age and a malediction that is waiting to come true.

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    The play Oedipus the King by Sophocles is a drama of a heroic archetype struggling to find answers which creates conflicts of man vs. man‚ man vs. himself‚ and man vs. supernatural and in the end reveals his real identity thus fulfilling his prophecy. Man vs. Man The entire man to man confrontation comes down to friendship and trust. Oedipus does not trust Creon even though Creon tries to help Oedipus in finding the murder of King Laois. Oedipus does not trust Creon and retaliates against

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    tragedy writer in Greek history. Sophocles is most famous for writing Oedipus Rex. He also wrote several other plays including Antigone‚ Ajax‚ and Trachiniae. Sophocles is said to have written over 125 tragedies but only seven of them have survived. He grew up in Colonus‚ a little town outside of Athens. Coincidentally‚ Colonus is the setting for the story of Oedipus. His father sent him to Athens in hope that Sophocles would get a good education. During his life‚ Sophocles received numerous awards for

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    London: Yale UP‚ 1959. 25- 43. Print. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Perrine ’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense. 7th ed. Ed. Thomas R. Arp. Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 1998. 948-953.  Print. Sutton‚ Brian. "Sophocles ’s Oedipus the King and Spielberg ’s Minority Report." The Explicator 63.4 (Summer 2005): 194(4). Academic OneFile. Gale. Web. 14 Sept. 2008  . Vernant‚ J. P. “Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex.” Sophocles

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    The ancient Greeks evidently seemed to be fascinated by the concept of tragic heroes as seen by the Sophocles plays Oedipus Rex and Antigone. The latter is a play that expands upon the tragic hero Oedipus’ children‚ specifically his daughter Antigone. Antigone apprises the reader of the hostility of the two sons of Oedipus‚ Polyneices and Eteocles; the sons that fought for control of Thebes eventually murdered one another‚ leaving Antigone and her sister Ismene the only surviving offspring. The

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    plague. Throughout his journey‚ he learns the genuine truth about himself and in the end‚ succeeds in finding the murderer and punishes himself to save his city. Throughout the play‚ Oedipus’ perception of justice is seen throughout the entire Sophocles play. His perception is that justice is above all man‚ even himself. This is relevant in the play because throughout the play‚ Oedipus goes on a quest to find the killer of King Laius. However‚ as he discovers the truth bit by bit‚ he realizes that

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    way they think‚ move or change the story. Women have always been subordinate to men all through history‚ but in plays‚ novels‚ short stories‚ etc‚ they have been given large enforcing roles‚ showing the power within women. William Shakespeare and Sophocles use guilt‚ pride‚ and influence to demonstrate the importance of the women’s role to support the main characters in both the plays of Macbeth and Antigone. In Macbeth and Antigone the authors created guilt for the women to use against the main characters

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    The 5th century Greek play Antigone written by Sophocles‚ explores the plight of a young woman named Antigone who rebels against man’s authority to bury her brother her dead brother. Her actions lead herself and several others to their death‚ while Creon is left in anguish for his mistakes. Today‚ several people would look upon Antigone and believe that it is an exhilarating‚ entertaining play – the issues presented in the play are commonplace in today’s society; such as putting god’s will first

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