Laius

Oedipus’s reaction to the knowledge that he killed King Laius gives valuable insight on his character. Despite Tiresias’s warning that “[he] [is] the murderer of the king whose murderer [he] seek[s],” Oedipus never realizes it until Jocasta says,“the king was killed by foreign highway robbers at a place where three roads meet.” Oedipus now remembers that he killed some men at a crossroads during his journey from Corinth, and he is encompassed with fear that the murderer may have been him.…

During the time of the plague and despair for Thebes, King Oedipus decides to take action to restore kingdom. After receiving council from his brother-in-law Creon, and the blind prophet, Tiresias, Oedipus learns that the murderer of the former king, Laius, must be expelled from the kingdom to end the plaque upon the land. Oedipus discovers in his quest for truth, that his true identity isn’t what he thought it was. He learns that he, unknowing,…

Tiresias a blind prophet conferred with the power of having knowledge about the foresightedness, who with this capacity had privilege to tell people about their past events, future calamities and fatal occurrences and even unknown on goings of present. In the dark and gloomy days Thebes was going through the most helpless condition by which no single being was able to redemption of people from disastrous epidemic in the aspect of Black Death which was grave depriving in human history, resulted…

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis. He is god of music and he often plays golden lyre. He is also known as the archer, far shooting with a silver bow. He is god of healing, medicin, light and truth. However, he also can bring forth of diseases and plague with his arrows. It shows that the god can cause the disease and prevent it. One of Apollo’s most important daily tasks is move the sun across the sky. In addition, Apollo is oracular god that he provides prophecy to…

searches for justice all along the play but does not realize all the injustice he had created and had been affected. Oedipus believes that people should feel justice and that it should be enforced. For example, Oedipus wanted for the murderer of Laius to be found and face justice for his actions. His mission was to find and banish the killer so that the plague destroying the kingdom could finally be brought to its last moments. Oedipus expressed the idea that if someone did something wrong…

Oedipus finds out from Creon who is his brother in law that he sent to Delphi for information, that Apollo was the God who put the plague the Thebes until they “Drives the corruption frame the land, don’t harbor it any longer, past all cure, don’t nurse it in your soil-root it out!”-( Oedipus The King pg:576, line: 107-111)Oedipus says this as an oath before the chorus and the priest that the murder would be found and banished from the land. During this is one of the time you can really…

Jocasta cannot bear the circumstances of truth of their marriage holds. After she has fled the scene with Oedipus and the Messenger it is later announced that the “The Queen is dead” (Soph. 127), and the cause recognized “By her own hand…she wailed for Laius, dead so long, remembering how she bore his child long ago, the life that rose up to destroy him, leaving its mother to mother living creatures with the son she’d born” (Soph. 127). With his wife/mother gone, Oedipus must carry on alone,…

” having a passion to find his real parents which lead to his downfall unfortunately. Oedipus, the child of Laius and Jocasta, was given to a herdsman named Polybus, to have Oedipus killed after his father Laius, the king, was eager for future-knowledge, and journeyed to the oracle at Delphi and found out the most unwelcoming news that his newborn son would grow up to kill his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta. A spike was driven through baby Oedipus' ankles causing his ankles to…

Melissa Dibene Westbrook Professor Davis English 102 2 April 2018 Binary Oppositions Oedipus the King and Antigone are two of Sophocles surviving plays about the Theban saga. Estimated to be written in 441 BC and 430 BC. Oedipus the King and Antigone were not written in chronological order of events within the stories; Antigone is actually the last play. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus has fathered four children with his wife who is also his mother. Oedipus has killed his father just as it was…

The play Antigone, by Sophocles, sometimes appears to have two tragic heroes: two characters that make decisions that lead to a tragic conclusion. However utilizing the ideas presented in Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy, is is clear that the true tragic hero of this Greek play is Creon. Although the story deals with the demise of Antigone in her quest to honor both her brother and the gods, the true misfortune of this tragedy is that of Creon who through excessive pride, ultimately loses all that…