Euripides

The focal point of Sophocles’ Antigone is the protagonist’s desire and search for justice. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is the play’s tragic heroine who fights against the evil Creon, the current King of Thebes. Her rebellion against the king was ignited by her thirst for justice, stopping at nearly nothing to combat the immoralities standing in her way. In her heart, the sacredness of family and honor is the pinnacle aspect of her life. These beliefs of hers create the source of…

Is Life Fate or Free Will? The play Oedipus the King is a process of fulfilling the prophecy that God has given to Oedipus. The author, Sophocles used fate to unfold the plot of this story and to develop the characters. People wonder how their life is going to turn out and agonize over whether to follow it or avoid it, so his play was sufficiently attractive to the audience. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles expresses its main theme, fate; how it leads this play to tragedy, how it affects to the…

The definition of a tragedy in Greek writing is “a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character”. Antigone, a play written by Sophocles is a tragedy of wicked justice and brave rebellion, a reflection of the mind. Each character represents a different facet of the human persona. Some hold onto their beliefs with pride and stubbornness that cuts deep within their heart without any consideration of others, some have…

Vincent Kim Dr. Churchill ELA 40S February 23, 2018 Hamlet Essay The classical tragic hero can be defined through examples in Aristotle’s Greek tragedies, mainly Oedipus in the Oedipus Rex Complex. Aristotle outlines the predominant elements of a classical tragic hero: The character must be multifaceted along with their hamartia, hubris, and catharsis. Tragic heroes in Senecan tragedies - otherwise, known as Shakespearean tragedies - such as Hamlet in the play of Hamlet, mutually hold a number…

Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy featuring a theme of fate and free will by Sophocles. It tells the tragic fate of Oedipus, king of Thebes. Oedipus is facing the dilemma of whether to investigate the claims of the blind prophet, Tiresias, who foretells that Oedipus will kill his father and lay with his mother. Not taking kindly to such accusation on his kingly ego, Oedipus berates the prophet and returns a different accusation, that Teiresias is conspiring with Creon to steal the throne…

The statement that Medea, makes about the debate between passion and reason is that, all our sense of reason is completely lost when mixed up in our emotions. As stated line 40, “disaster made her realize” an event can affect us emotionally, but mentally. Medea and anybody today would do something for love without realizing the entire effect it could have on somebody else. Medea has a passion for her lover Jason, which she performs unspeakable acts for. On page 529, “for her part, she complied…

Fourth century BCE Greek philosopher, Aristotle, has long been revered as the utmost expert on theater. He wrote a book called The Poetics in which, among other things, he listed the six most important elements of a drama (Admin). These elements, plot, character, theme, diction, music, and spectacle, listed in order from most to least important, are still used by playwrights today, as well as by those of Shakespeare’s time (Trumbull). Aristotle’s six elements of drama can be found in all of…

Greek tragedy is most definitely defined as a tragedy, because of the common knowledge that everyone dies at the end. However, the question between artists and fellow art appreciators is what defines a tragedy? At the Academy Awards how is it possible to pick one film over all of the others? Aristotle answered this question back in his lifetime of 384-322 B.C. Aristotle’s opinion of a true Tragedy is still effective to this day. His favorite play, and best example of a tragedy, is Oedipus Rex,…

Truth be told, almost everyone who has lived in the time of our world have craved high respect and recognition for their actions. Everyone secretly wants admiration and great honor for their deeds, however it truly does not come that simple. Honor is not given but earned to a person that has shown great determination and wisdom by sticking to their morals. This definition of honor is seen throughout Sophocles’ greek tragedy of Antigone as Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, is being put to the test…

SHORT QUESTIONS 1. Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play? Oedipus sent Creon to the Pythian temple of Apollo, to the oracle of Delphi to ask for advice to get rid of the plague that was terrorizing Thebes. 2. Where was Laius killed? Laius was killed at a three way crossroad out of the country by Oedipus, when Oedipus and Laius had a scuffle and Oedipus ended up killing Laius. 3. Why did not anyone investigate Laius murder at the time it happened? No one tried to find out…