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    Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” First‚ Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias‚ and later Oedipus; but later‚ blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus‚ while gifted with sight‚ is blind to himself‚ in contrast to Teiresias‚ blind physically‚ but able to see the evil to which Oedipus

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    Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world‚ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed‚ and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction‚ while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. In the above mentioned stanza Yeats has stated that the falcon is turning in widening gyre and is so far away from the falconer now that it cannot be heard. Yeats has

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    Oedipus the King‚ also called Oedipus Rex‚ is a tragedy written by the Greek playwright Sophocles. This play is the second work in a trilogy of plays that deal with the Greek hero Oedipus‚ who was the mythical king of Thebes. This play revolves around an oracle that Oedipus is given on his way to Delphi in his search for his true parents. This oracle said that he is going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus‚ in an attempt to avoid this prophecy‚ leaves his home of Corinth so that

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    Characteristics of a Tragic Hero He must be; better than we are; a man who is superior to the average man in some way. In Oedipus case‚ he is superior not only because of social standing‚ but also because he is smart ­ he is the only person who could solve the Sphinx riddle. At the same time‚ a tragic hero must evoke both pity and fear‚ and Aristotle claims that the best way to do this is if he is imperfect. A character with a mixture of good and evil is more compelling that a character who is merely good. And

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    How Volcanoes Came to be : Hephaestus god of blacksmiths and fire wanted revenge on all the villages that used his gift of metallurgy for war and killing so he went up to Zeus to ask him for a way to devastate their population. Zeus thought for a while and decided to give him the deserted mountains on the others side of the valley and let him chose what he wanted to do with them. “I’d like to make them burst into an explosion of liquid fire.” he said “Ha ha ha” laughed the father god‚ “ thinking

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    he became king for getting rid of the Sphinx and was very stubborn to his brother-in-law (uncle). Then I thought that he needs to stop talking and listen to his own thoughts and think everything threw. 2) From lines 1-89‚ what qualities do the people attribute to Oedipus? What heroic qualities does he attribute to himself? The qualities people attribute to Oedipus is that they see him as a very kind‚ smart‚ and a strong man mostly because he faced the Sphinx. The heroic quality that he attributes

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    Egyptian architecture is characterized by massiveness‚ monumentality and SIMPLICITY. 15. Egyptian system of construction is essentially COLUMNAR and TRABEATED. 16. The Colossi of Memnon was erected by AMENOPHIS III. 17. The architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria is PTOLEMY III. 18. The funerary temple at Der-el-Bahari was built by HATSHEPSUT. 19. The forerunners of the caryatids of the Greeks is OSIRIS PILLARS. 20. Characteristic wall ornament of the Egyptians is HIEROGLYPHICS. 21.

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    man who sees the sun” (52). Furthermore‚ Oedipus is proud of himself and what he has accomplished‚ especially regarding what happened with the Sphinx: “The tyrant is a child of Pride” (67). The tyrant‚ which‚ aside from the modern meaning‚ can also be interpreted as “King”‚ is Oedipus. “Pride” refers to the fact that he is proud to have defeated the Sphinx by personal means only. Moreover‚ Oedipus is a very arrogant person‚ hence the use of the word

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    positive change in Thebes even though some people don’t understand his ways. For example‚ when Thebes was being tormented by the evil Sphinx‚ Oedipus figures out the riddle that the Sphinx would repeat to people who wanted to enter Thebes. Since he answers correctly‚ the Sphinx gets so upset that she kills herself. This is justice for the people of Thebes because the Sphinx was treating the travelers and people of Thebes unfairly. Another way Oedipus searches for

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    Biography of Oedipus: A tragic hero. Birth: Oedipus was child of King Laius and Jacosta‚ the ruling couple of Thebs. Laius was eager to know the future for his personal knowledge‚ but the new he received were quite unwelcoming. He was told that his newborn son‚ Oedipus would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Disturbed by the new he was given‚ Laius gave the new born to a herdsman and ordered him to kill the child. A spike was driven through the baby’s ankles and was left on Mt.

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