While reading the play‚ a first impression of Oedipus can be portrayed as a compassionate and caring ruler and person. He wants the kingdom to be well and not to suffer. He shows confidence and intelligence to the people due to his previous encounter with the Sphinx. Furthermore‚ Oedipus wants to learn of the cities troubles himself as he stated "it would not be appropriate for me to learn of this from any other source‚ so I have come in person" showing his concern for his citizens. He is already
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deserved the punishment he received at the conclusion of the play. My philosophy of life probably influenced my decision because I believe that everyone deserves a second chance. Creon was arrogant and did not listen to anyone’s advice‚ including Tiresias‚ a prophet who has never told him a lie. However‚ in the end he realized what had happened and accepted his fate. Creon was just recently appointed king so I guess he was trying to set a good example by sentencing Antigone to death. He didn’t’
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finding this unfair‚ asks her sister Ismene to assist her in burying their brother‚ who refuses but promises not to tell anyone what she’s planning. Antigone is obviously caught‚ and sentenced to be locked in a cave to essentially die alone there. Tiresias meanwhile warns Creon that the gods will punish him for killing Antigone for such a loving act of allowing her brother to pass onto the afterlife. Creon realises what he must do and goes to free Antigone‚ but it’s too late as she has killed herself
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For years and years I’ve been roaming around the seas in hope to get back to my homeland Ithaca. I’ve faced many obstacles along my journey but all with great morals. I started off my journey when Menelaus and Agamemnon asked me to go with them to Troy to retrieve Helen. The other islands I visited came along unexpectedly. The decision to leave my homeland Ithaca was the hardest decision a man could make. Leaving behind my wife Penelope and my new born son Telemachus was unbearable but when duty
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examples of blindness being used for specific scenes and characters. Lastly‚ this plays biggest tragedy can only be summed up as blindness. The play has plenty of examples of the motifs put to great use. First‚ one incredibly ironic character named Tiresias is blind and a fortune teller who can see the future. One of the first examples of this motif in the play to be shown. The irony behind this can give the idea as the soothsayer as unknowing and provides the moral lesson that no one
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"The Waste Land" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot caused a sensation when it was published in 1922. It is today the most widely translated and studied English-language poem of the twentieth century. This is perhaps surprising given the poem’s length and its difficulty‚ but Eliot’s vision of modern life as plagued by sordid impulses‚ widespread apathy‚ and pervasive soullessness packed a punch when readers first encountered it. Pound’s influence on the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant
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The third step of the Odyssey is meeting the mentor‚ Odysseus does this when he meets and is helped by Athena. Athena‚ the Goddess of wisdom‚ and becomes Odysseus mentor. She help Odysseus‚ even though she is not supposed to. Athena helps Odysseus by pleading with the gods so that he could go home. She tells him how to get through certain dangerous situations and leads him to King Alcinous. The next step in Odysseus’s journey is crossing the threshold. After the war‚ the gods are angry at the Greeks
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Getting to the underworld was not a problem he just had to perform certain tasks to get Tiresias to come out and give him his prophecy. He had to dig a trench and pour his libations in it for the dead souls. Once he completed all of his tasks that is when everyone started to appear. The first ghost he recognized was his soldier Elpenor. When
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He is direct with all the characters‚ especially Oedipus. A tempered man. “You [Creon] are a knave” Oedipus says when he taunts Creon. ii. Teiresias The prophet of Apollo. He has the knowledge of the King’s fatal identity‚ Tiresias is visually impaired and lives in the darkness‚ but he can still see the truth of the contingency. He has spiritual eyes that allows him to see what many other people cannot see‚ including Oedipus. iii. Jocasta Queen of Thebes‚ and mother
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be buried alive by King Creon even though she is about to marry the king’s son‚ Haemon. After hearing of the sentencing‚ Tiresias comes to the throne to speak with the king‚ along side him‚ a small boy as an escort. This old prophet is a blind man that in the end of the story‚ is proven to see better than most able-bodied men of 30 years younger than that of himself. Tiresias proves to the king that gods are not on his side and Creon changes his mind. His final decision is too late. He leaves the
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