Jocasta

Butt 3 Sometimes the ignorance from the fact or inability to listen to one’s conscience is considered to be a blessing. Jocasta and Lady Macbeth would never commit suicide and would remain in their senses, would they not felt about their illicit actions of incest and murder respectively, but once they’ve realization of their wrong deeds, their conscience start blaming them, feeling the burden of guilt and shame. “To feel shame, one has to compare one’s behavior against standards in which one has…

answer is found through the character Jocasta from Sophocles’ play, Oedipus The King. Jocasta, both the unfortunate wife and mother of Oedipus, is a prideful character and it is this prideful character that begins her downfall. However, she goes through rids her pride once she realizes Oedipus is her child and disposes of her pride in the process. It is this arrogant character and the revelation of Oedipus’ birth that cause Jocasta to commit suicide. Jocasta is a prideful character throughout…

Mother and Son The relationship between mother and son is often complicated and varies family to family. Though no other mother son relationship compares to the legend of Oedipus and Jocasta. Jocasta and Oedipus want the best for their kingdom and family but their weaknesses causes them to make decisions leading to the inevitable prophecy actualization. They are alike in that their weaknesses lead to their eventual downfall. Jocasta’s careless actions create unresolved guilt while Oedipus must…

treason with creon.Creon defends himself on Oedipus's crazy assumption. Afterwords, Oedipus complains to his wife, Jocasta, about Creon. After all of Oedipus's complaint about his brother, Creon enters and says thebes must find and punish former kings murderer.…

Creon tries to stand up for himself. Jocasta (Oedipus’s wife/ the queen/ Creon’s sister), stands up for Creon, but Oedipus banishes Creon from Thebes, therefore he leaves. Oedipus then complains about Creon to Jocasta, and worries that what the seer said is true. Jocasta tries to calm him down, by saying the prophecy could be false. Oedipus asks Jocasta exactly what happened when Lauis died, and she tells Oedipus all she knows. Oedipus then proceeds to tell Jocasta about a prophecy he heard from…

If you are oblivious to the truth and have no way of knowing what you did wrong, should you be blamed for your actions? Oedipus Rex is a play written by Sophocles in 441 b.c.. The play is about King Oedipus, ruler of Thebes, and his terrible destiny. There was an oracle created before the King’s birth that eventually proved to be true. The oracle claimed that Oedipus would kill his father, and also marry and have children with his mother. Knowing that this oracle was in place, Oedipus’s…

about the future of Laius, Jocasta, and Oedipus. Killing his father and marrying his mother are both examples of what the oracle predicted about them. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles shows that, in the case of finding truth, if a man starts in search for the truth, he must find the whole truth, but if a man never starts in search for the truth, he can stay ignorant of the truth. The story of Oedipus shows that the better of the two is staying ignorant of the truth. If Jocasta and Laius had never…

In the play “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, Shows irony to prove that shame can destroy a person’s well being. To begin with, there was a prophecy that was told to King Laius and Jocasta that their own son will king his own father, and marry his own mother. King Laius ordered the messenger to kill his own son by drowning it in the ocean. But the messenger took pity on Oedipus. So the messenger just left Oedipus there on the field. Oedipus was found by a man herding sheep. The person who was…

Oedipus, like his parents, did everything possible to change the course of his fate. Fate and destiny is not something he could not escape from. Christopher S. Nassar and Michael Jacobs clearly believe that Oedipus could not change his fate; they even suggest he is guilty for fulfilling the prophecy and could have delayed his fate or lessened it if he would have let the oracle run its course instead of running from it; by running, Oedipus fulfilled the oracle without him knowing and may have…

by the gods, and trying to go against their fate is like going against the gods. Laius and Jocasta learn from the oracle that if they have a child, then their child’s fate will be to kill their father and marry their mother. When Laius and Jocasta accidently have a child, Oedipus, they attempt to avoid their fate and Oedipus’s fate by trying to kill him. Because Oedipus did not know that Laius and Jocasta were his parents, he killed his father and married his mother unintentionally. And in the…