Thebes

Period 429 B.C.E, Athens, Greece Literary Period: Classical Setting(s) The royal house of Thebes in Ancient Greece Structure/ Organization Follows guidelines of classic tragic drama. Point of View Third person objective Major Characters & Brief Descriptions Oedipus (King of Thebes): Main character/protagonist. Taken away from home as young boy and left with his feet bound. On his way to Thebes, he murders his father (having never met him and not knowing it was his father),…

is dated to have taken place in the "Theban cycle", which is in prehistoric times. I first found the myth on a site called "Owlcation", and the author is "NoYouAreNot". The king of Thebes fled when there was "an usurpation of power" to a neighboring kingdom. He repaid his host by raping his son and taking him to Thebes with him. When his wife gave birth, the Oracle of Delphi said, "the child would kill his father and marry his mother". The king gave the child to a shepherd to abandon on a…

Oedipus upon King Laius and Jocasta, the citizens of Thebes, and Oedipus’s family leads to the downfall of this tragic hero. With every tragic hero comes some kind of a tragic flaw; this particular flaw being Oedipus’s doomed…

he had previously committed will return and destroy the man who was once called a hero. Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and that made him king. The city of Thebes had gone downhill and was under a horrible plague. The people of Thebes respected Oedipus for saving the city from the Sphinx. He was admired by the city of Thebes and married a newly widowed Queen, Jocasta. Jocasta’s previous husband was killed by highwaymen/robbers. In the end we find out her husband…

The play Antigone was written in 441 b.c by Sophocles, it is an example of a Greek tragedy. King Creon of Thebes dictated over his people, controlling what they did, what they could think about, what they could pray about. Creon is the tragic hero of the play Antigone, showing that having the audience affected by fear, he is endowed with a his own flaw of ignorant pride, and he is responsible for his own fate. As the tragic hero of the play Antigone, Creon shows he isn 't fit to rule, he is…

“Creon thus serves as a pivot about which Oedipus turns in his contrasting phrases of self-confidence and abasement” (Kirkwood 70). He not only ignored others but even accused them of the crime. “Oedipus is proud and overconfident; he harbors unjustified suspicions against Teiresias and Creon” (Dodds 19). Rather than acknowledging the information of other characters, Oedipus was threatened by their attempts to help. “The suspicion is confirmed, the connection between Creon and Teiresias is…

stubborn traits draw the public's eye to him. Putting them in awe of how someone could have no filter and have a sole focus for themselves. Just like everybody says, "no one loves Kanye more than Kanye." In the Greek play "Antigone" the King of Thebes referred to as Creon brought himself to the citizens attention based off of his poor decisions influenced by his egocentric and stubborn ways. If it benefits him, it is a good thing regardless of how it affects others. "I should not be afraid…

Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex”, written around 429 B.C.E., was a Greek tragedy focused on the fall of the Theban King Oedipus. He was considered a strong, brave, and seemingly intelligent king by the ancient people of Thebes. Although this tragic hero had a multitude of good qualities, Oedipus had quite a few negative traits that led to his tragic end. His imperfections were such that they caused his inner blindness. They ultimately led to the demise of his family and of himself. The two flaws that…

best to get out of them by using our freewill. Another character whose heart was governed by fate was Oedipus, the King of Thebes. He and Okonkwo have belligerent characteristics which might be a cause of their sad ending. The author, Sophocles, wrote Oedipus Rex, where Oedipus finds…

happen, but you can not tell the character. That is called dramatic irony. Dramatic Irony is when you know more about the story that the character does. The drama Oedipus Rex is full of dramatic irony. For example we know Oedipus killed the king of Thebes but he does not nor does he know the man he killed was his father, we also know he married his mother. The fact that Oedipus does not know any of these things makes this drama dramatically ironic. The reader feels dramatic irony when Oedipus…