Oedipus was blind from the time that he was a newborn baby. The conflict of blindness vs. sight is seen throughout Oedipus Rex with character’s decisions to accept the truth or accept the lies that are more convenient for them. “Fear? What should a man fear? It’s all chance, chance rules our lives.
No pleasure but meanness.” He was an extremist—a black or white thinker. If he had believed that Jesus had raised the dead he would have been good only out of compunction and not from a sincere heart. At one point he had been a Christian but apparently lost his faith. However, he ended up fulfilling his father’s prophecy that he was not good like his siblings were but was instead predisposed to getting into trouble. Perhaps this is why he killed his father.
Caesar honestly thinks that he is too good to be attacked. Caesar thinks that people who threaten him won’t actually do anything because they are afraid of him. The last example where Caesar shows his hubris is when he refuses to accept Artemidorus’ letter. Artemidorus was trying to help Caesar by warning him about the Conspiracy, but Caesar once again believes that he has to act noble and prestigious. Caesar tells Artemidorus, “What touches us ourself shall be last served” (JC.
He states, “A son of sin and sorrows.” This shows that he knows the mistakes he have committed during his life and reign as king. His decision-making resulted in him losing his family and doing wrong in Apollo’s design. He also states, “ A prince of evil.” This means that the moment he took throne he was brought down from a fatal flaw, his flaw was hubris, he thought that he could get away from fate and in the Greek and Roman tragedies and in their life they believed strongly in fate. He also utilizes empathy to make others feel what he feels. He states, “For whom I should be hanged.” This shows that e is unhappy of the truth and how sick it makes him feel.
Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglass in an attempt to “sivilize” him. Huck constantly discards the ideas of obedience taught to him. Due to his childhood Huck chooses to fake his own death and run away from his father, Pap. This is the first major deceit that appears in the novel. As Huck escapes he leaves behind clues to mislead his father and community, “I took the axe and smashed in the door.
In effect, they have killed a mockingbird. Boo Radley is another example of a human “mockingbird”. He has spent his entire life as a prisoner of his own home because his father was overcautious in punishing him for a mistake he made as a child. Boo Radley observes the world around him, causing no harm to anyone; he then goes on to save Jem and Scout’s lives when Bob Ewell attacks them. The sheriff, Heck Tate, determines that Bob Ewell’s death will be ruled as an accident to avoid forcing Boo to go to trial, even though Boo killed him to protect the children.
From the beginning, Oedipus Rex was a baby, Lauis and Jocasta found out from the oracle, that Oedipus Rex was going to kill his father and marry his mother. Lauis ordered that his baby son should be exposed in the woods with a pin through his feet to keep from crawling away but that didn’t change anything. Everything that was going to happen to Oedipus Rex was set and carved in stone. Oedipus Rex’s parents tried to change it but it never worked. Oedipus Rex heard from the oracle, when he was an adult that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother.
Their own son (who has not been born yet) will grow up, and he will kill his father (King Laois) and marry his mother (Queen Jocaste). In an attempt to not let this prophecy come true the king and queen ordered a peasant to leave Oedipus on the side of a mountain, and this is when the prophecy beings to take its path. The peasant does not leave it on the mountain side, for he would feel guilty to kill an infant. He handed it off to another peasant to bring to his town. One simple trip to an oracle sets the outline of a great ancient Greek tragedy.
He's held a grudge against Odysseus and his men because they blinded his son, Polyphemus, who is a beastly Kyklops. Polyphemos calls down a curse on Odysseus and his men: "O hear me lord, blue girdler of the islands, if I am thine indeed, and thou art father: Grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home: Laertes' son, I mean, who kept his hall on Ithaka. Should destiny intend that he shall see his roof again among his family in his father land, far be that day, and dark the years between. Let him lose all companions, and return under strange sail to bitter days at home,"(IX;576-586). Poseidon’s anger is first showed when he sends strong waves to Odysseus’s location, that wrecks his raft in which he built to get off of Calypso’s island.
We see this when it says “O, could I loose all father now?” this symbolises that he wonders if he believes in God anymore because he doesn’t understand the reason behind him taking his child’s life. Furthermore this could also mean that the poet has lost his title as a father, due to the death of his son. Religion is also a strong theme in TE as the poet feels God set him the task of assassinating the queen and he has failed at this task, so therefore feels like he has committed a sin. OMFS also refers to the poet committing a sin, as it says “My sinne was too much hop of thee, lov’d boy” this shows to the reader that the poet is blaming himself for his child’s death because of the “sinne”. In addition to this we see in both poems that religion leads their lives and what they do and how they act is determined by religion and the rules that God sets them.