From my understanding I say that Tiresias is the revelation for the king and his wife(mother) the reasons Is because even though his blind he is trying to find the truth of the king and the mother story on the king motives to be king. Tiresias shows how bad actions […]
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In the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, which was more like a poem play. Although the language was a little hard to understand the way it was written was meant to reveal how the speaker’s personality and way of thinking was. The Duke was perceived as someone who […]
In “Oedipus the King” line 181-188 “What is the sweet spoken word of God from the shrine of Pytho……………..immortal voice, child of golden Hope.” represents the offering of prayer to the Gods in fear of the fate of Thebes and it’s people. In the first line the chorus represents it’s […]
From reading Oedipus the king the clearest timeless human experience I can find is the fear of incest. Jacosta says much the same in the play when, trying to soothe Oedipus, she tells him that many a man has dreamed of killing his father and marrying his mother. As such […]
Timeless human experiences and behaviors that I find in Oedipus the king is the need to know everything. Oedipus throughout the story has a need to know the things that the people are trying to hide him from. As king Oedipus wanted to avoid what was fated from him from […]
In Oedipus the King, lines 205 to 210 talk about how the lives of young children are taken by this mysterious disease. As their bodies are rotting exposed, the disease further spreads to in the city.” Those children that are born lie dead on the naked earth unpitied spreading contagion […]
Lines 211-215 “There is no clash of brazen shields … deny the stranger safe anchorage”, is saying that there is no fight with one another, the fight is with Ares, a god of war. Here, the people of the city are blaming Ares for the “curse” that is currently upon […]
Welcome to Week 3 of our online course. This week we will finish the reading of Oedipus the King and enlarge our discussion of this tragedy. We will also clarify the steps in how to research secondary sources for your in-progress essay. The quiz this week will be on MLA […]
Lines 195 through 203 describe the plague and how it is affecting the citizens of Thebes. These lines use severe imagery to fully describe how bad the plague is in Thebes. “Our sorrows defy number,” meaning that they feel like their problems are infinite. “All the ship’s timbers are rotten,” […]
The chorus between line 181 and line 188 generally sings about asking for help from a higher being or “god”, it asks for guidance from higher powers, it at a point asks for forgiveness and for the power to deem justice onto him as it may please (in line 187) […]
