Abstract: In ancient Greece, fate was considered to be a rudimentary part of daily life. Every aspect of life depended and was based upon fate (Nagle 100). It is common belief to assume that mankind does indeed have free will and each individual can decide the outcome of his or her life. Fate and free will both decide the fate ofOedipus the King. Their personality was what decides their own free will. A wise man will make good decisions in his life; an ignorant and stubborn man won 't be so fortunate
knowledge (LitCharts). Knowing their fate can sometimes blind people and cause them to try to avoid the fate. In the cause of Oedipus, Antigone’s father, his father learned that Oedipus was to kill him and marry his wife, Oedipus’ own mother, so he tried to avoid that fate by banishing Oedipus. He unknowingly put into play the events that led up to Oedipus killing him and marrying his wife. When Oedipus
analytical virtue even though the truth was recurrently terrifying. Sophocles uses the character revolution of Oedipus, to illuminate the theme of his famous work, Oedipus the King. As the play unravels and Oedipus gains self-knowledge, he transforms from a conceited, valiant king at the beginning, to a despot in denial toward the middle and a perturbed man, mortified by his fatal fate in the end. One question that has never failed to baffle humanity throughout history is whether we, the mortals
comparing and contrasting Oedipus and Hamlet, I see Oedipus as more of a man given to sudden, rash decisions and quick temper. Oedipus is definitely a man of action, where Hamlet stews over whether he should kill Claudius. Oedipus is a proud and selfless man, but is more concerned about his image than Hamlet. Hamlet is a very sensitive, moody person, very much in awe of his deceased father, who obviously didn 't care about his image or he wouldn 't have feigned "madness". Oedipus was a very passionate
Sophocles, the renowned ancient Greek playwright, wrote three plays about the house of Thebes: King Oedipus (also called Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Tyrannus), Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus. The three plays, while commonly considered a trilogy, are in fact three separate plays, written at almost twenty to thirty year intervals, which concern themselves with the same theme and lineage. With Aeschylus and Euripides, his older and younger contemporaries, Sophocles formed a triad of the greatest dramatists
dismantles them, in this situation can their suicidal attempt is an act of mercy not murder. Suicide is not equitable with wrongful self-killing, in the way murder is equated with wrongful killing of another. Moreover, both of them are puppets in hands of fate. The more they avoid destiny, the more they suffer. So is the case with suicide, that is predestined and they cannot be blamed for this. Keywords: suicide, Lady Macbeth, Jocasta, murder, mercy Introduction: Suicide, which normally
is involved to delineate that apart from the dramas, it was also the dramatist who was subconsciously self- psychoanalyzing in an attempt to link his conscious and subconscious mind. The first tier includes the characterization, the plot structure, themes and motifs of the drama. The second tier consists of the authors personal background, his idiosyncratic psyche, and his motivation that went through in compiling the dramas. A concurrent juxtaposing is made within the article to prove the impact of