Tiresias

“The Waste Land” is a wonderfully complex work by T.S. Eliot. In this work Eliot illuminates ideas in “The Waste Land” by comparing and contrasting events happening there to events that have happened in the past. One of the myths we see echoed throughout the story as a reoccurring, central theme to the work is the myth of Philomela. Eliot depicts an image of human stagnation in his work, which can be compared to the unfruitfulness that comes from the rape Philomela story and the loveless central…

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…

the King, Oedipus’s very act of searching for the truth brings about his demise. The role of truth is for Oedipus and his family to learn a valuable lesson. A lesson to be wary of the future. As Oedipus searches for the truth, he is confronted by Tiresias who is amused by the fact that he ‘sees and still is blind, blind to [his] origins, and to a union in [his] house (23). Oedipus has always wanted…

Irony occurs in one’s life and shapes many aspects of his life whether or not be notices. In the play, Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus, the current Thebes finds way to search for the murderer of the previous king, Laius, in order to save the city from the plague and bring back peace. However, throughout the play, Oedipus is unaware that the killer is himself. All in all, the use and purpose of irony in Oedipus the King is to show Oedipus’s action, the idea of fate and the search…

Each work of literature that has ever been written has had one universal purpose: to tell a story. Each character is unique to the development of a story and such a justification holds serve with Homer’s The Odyssey and Tale of a Thousand and One Nights. Each respective novel has a narrator that serves as cadence to the plot of the lives of the characters, which provides insight to how and why things happen throughout the course of the novel. Homer highlights the typical Greek tragedy through…

Multiple people came to testify to Oedipus, and everything stated lined up with his fate, proving fate does occur. The first of these men to testify was Tiresias, who stated that Oedipus killed Laius, who ended up being Oedipus’ father. Oedipus did not believe him and kicked him out of Thebes. Sometimes when people face their destiny anger and violence occurs. This claim also is backed up by Jocasta, who said that Laius was killed “at the place the three roads meet” (Sophocles 790), which is…

The Laws of Gods and Men in the Odyssey The odyssey is one of the most famous ancient epic Greek poems credited to Homer around the 8th century. It is a magnificent novel about a man on a journey to return home while overcoming various hardships to return to his kingdom and to his beloved family. Greek poet, Homer recited his tale about the Trojan War by stating that the war took place in 1250 B.C when Queen Helen of Sparta was kidnapped by Paris, thus King Menelaus, king Agamemnon and Odysseus…

Hero is a word associated with a completely different type of being in our modern world. When we think of a hero our minds immediately go to the stories we were told as children such as superheroes like batman, superman, and wonder woman. All characters who have exceptional talents or powers to protect mankind. Unlike our heroes of today, who are made up, the heroes of ancient Greece that immediately comes to mind were very real to the people. The Odyssey by Homer does an exemplary job at…

Odyssey Character List 1) Agamemnon-(ag-uh-mem-non) In Greek legend, he was the king of Mycenae or Argos. When paris (Alexandros), son of King Priam of Troy, carried off Helen, Agamemnon called on the princes of the country to unite in war of rage against the Trojans. 2) Alcinous-(Al-KIN-oh-us) In the Greek legends, he was king of the Phaeacians, and father of Nausicaa and Laodamas. Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings See also Nausicaä 3)…

Like Odyssey, Both prophecies are told in the beginning of the story. First, in the story of Narcissus and Echo, Narcissus has his destiny set when he is born. From the same prophet in Odyssey, Tiresias foretells that Narcissus will live “so long as he never knows himself” (Ov. Med. III. 348). Similar with the purpose of prophecy in Odyssey, Narcissus does not have the power to control his destiny, and he dies because of his arrogance toward admirers…