Prophecy

Once the blind prophet Tiresias arrives in Thebes to tell the anxious Oedipus his prophecy, he is later disrespected by Oedipus for what comprises the prophecy--the fact that Oedipus is the murderer of Laius and that he has an inappropriate relationship with someone close to him. Oedipus is too irrational to listen to what Tiresias foretells, so he instead doubts Tiresias’…

witches want to amend things with Hecate but I think they also have an irritated attitude toward Hecate for bossing them around. I also think they are speaking to create an eerie mood for the play and to make sure the eerie mood is associated with the prophecies and/or apparitions. Along with the witches causing an eerie mood I think that they also want to cause trouble among the characters; I don’t think they initially target a specific character but I do think they pray on the weak, frail, and…

that will most likely cause their downfall. Sophocles foreshadows Oedipus’ future using the motif of sight and blindness through prophecies and through the character Tiresias to show his point. The prophecies that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother all were prophesied even before this story begins. Even though he thought he had escaped those prophecies, he actually ran to them, which shows…

erroneously attempted to disregard the prophecy—the sole aspect of fate leading the plot—and avoid their own foretold demise. Jocasta, being the only surviving parent, is able to demonstrate to the audience how misguided they were to revolt against this outcome. Unlike Oedipus, however, Jocasta is not lead by the words of Tiresias. She states that “whate’er the God deems fit...himself unaided will reveal”, restathat unless told from God himself, a prophecy cannot be true. Under this false…

Macbeth is a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare and is thought to have first been performed in 1606. The play is a Scottish tragedy and is about a general named Macbeth, who one day gets approached by three witches, who reveal a prophecy that Macbeth shall one day be king of Scotland. Spurred on by ambition and his own wife Macbeth kills the current king, Duncan, and takes the thrown. The guilt of killing the king leads to down spiral into madness and paranoia as Macbeth…

is still widely debated today, as some believe him to have predicted many terrible events of the last few centuries when he only lived in the sixteenth century. Others, however, argue that Nostradamus’ vague predictions cannot be considered true prophecies of the future. In December 1503, Michel de Nostradame was born to Reyniere de St-Remy and Jaume de Nostradame. He was born in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in southern…

Interpretive Exercise: Amos 3:1-8 Within the text Amos 3:1-8 (New Revised Standard Version), there is a divine message given by the prophet Amos to the people of Israel. This particular piece is bizarre, and on its surface fairly elusive, for it uses a dark tone and violent images and asks rhetorical and puzzling questions to its audience. Within this exercise, my aim is to address the imagery of this text, and attempt to decode the depiction that Amos gives to the Israelites. I will also…

Yet, Lady Macbeth is the one who manipulates Macbeth like a puppet on strings in the play, her means and actions pushing Macbeth to work towards his prophecy. Lady Macbeth wishes for her husband to take the throne, and maybe motivated by the witches’ appearance, she goes into a soliloquy, as if chanting a spell. She calls darkness to “unsex” her and fill her “from the crown to the toe topfull of direst…

Is Lady Macbeth more responsible for King Duncan’s death? Is Lady Macbeth is more evil than her husband? Lady Macbeth was a component during the murder however she cannot be accused of being more responsible for King Duncan’s death. Lady Macbeth was not eviler than her husband Macbeth. Macbeth was the character who did the deed which therefore makes him more vain. The first evidence that proves that Lady Macbeth cannot be blamed for the death of the king was because it clearly states that…

the sickness that was effecting his people. One of the ways that Oedipus is a good person is shown in the end of the play when he asks Creon to look after his kids and to bury his wife Jocasta. Jocasta also happens to be his mother, thanks to the prophecy given to Oedipus. Oedipus also asks Creon to banish him from Thebes. After all that has happened in his life, he is still trying to take care of everyone. Through the play, Oedipus’ persistence to find out who the killer of Laius was, made him…