He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel. After saving Thebes from the Sphinx, he is given the hand of Queen Jocasta, his mother, for marriage and he becomes the new king of Thebes. One of the many reasons Oedipus is a coward is that he didn’t want to face his parent s again. His thought at the moment when he blinds himself is that if he killed himself he will see his real parents in the underworld, who he had committed those crimes against. Instead of repenting for his sins he escapes them.
For example,Oedipus from Oedipus The King by Sophocles is a well thorough example of a tragic hero, as well as Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Both characters are heroic and important people in their societies as well as admired by readers through the imagery of their action. However, the flaw that each of them have ruins their lives and drives them into pain. Oedipus is a mythical Greek king of a city named Thebes, he fulfills a prophecy that said he would kill his father, and thereby brings a disaster on his city and family. Okonkwo, on the other hand, is a wealthy and a well respected warrior of the Umofian clan, a lower Nigerian tribe who gives effort to develop into a powerful and successful person, nevertheless ends up self murdered and doomed as an evil spirit.
Electra fights with her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus, because she feels betrayed by them as they killed her father. When Electra and Orestes are finally reunited, they plot against their fathers killers, and finally kill them. The play has several themes, such as vengeance and deception which are extenuated by the heightened realism style of the play. In Electra’s introductory speech, I would emphasises her agony of her father’s death, as this is the main reason the character is vengeful. To fit with the heightened realism of the play, I would exaggerate the mental pain that the character is going through by associating some lines with physical pain, such as ‘But my mother, and her bed mate Aegisthus, Split open his head with a murderous axe’.
In Antigone, by Sophocles, The characterization Creon proves the quote to be true through his irrational decisions and edicts. His abuse of power is shown through Creon by forbidding anyone to give Polyneices an honorable burial and not listening to the prophet Teiresias. When Oedipus, King of Thebes, dies, his throne is left for his two sons Eteocles and Polyneices. When Eteocles refuses to share the throne, the two brothers go to war. Both are killed in the struggle for power.
His father had killed him and served his flesh to the gods, hoping to fool the gods. The gods punished Tantalus and restored Pelops to life. Demeter, who had eaten part of shoulder blade, replaced it with ivory shaped like his shoulder blade. When Pelops reached manhood, he heard that King Oenomaüs (Oenomaus) of Pisa, the son of Ares and Asterope, challenged his suitors to a chariot race, offering his daughter Hippodaemia's hand in marriage as the prize. However, any suitors who lose the race against the king also forfeit his life.
Polyneices betrays his kingdom and dies killing his brother. According to Greek mythology, if someone is not buried properly, then that person will not be able to rest peacefully in the afterlife. Antigone, sister of Polyneices and Eteocles, betrays Creon and properly buries Polyneices. When he learns of her betrayal, he orders
Isaac Velasquez Mr. Hawkins English CP2 5/14/12 Antigone’s killer or killers The story of Antigone is one of a sister who suicides herself after being punished for breaking a unjust law. There are many questions of whose fault it is that Antigone ended her life? But the fault is not only one person it depends on many. Antigone’s death depended on many factors, but mostly by the actions or inactions committed by Ismene, Creon, and Antigone herself. Ismene’s inaction to react to the situation she is put through by her sister contributed to Antigone’s death.
She asks’ her sister Ismene to help her give him the burial he deserves. Creon the king of Thebes made sure that if anyone was to bury Polynieces was going to be stoned to death. He felt as if he was a “traitor” to Creon who killed his own brother in a civil war. Antigone was caught in the act of burring Polynieces by the sentry, now she is sentenced to be buried and killed. Antigone and Rosa Parks have a different encounter with the law and how they are punished for what they have done.
I say this because just like in The Hunger Games, with how the Capitol is convinced that their actions are justified, Medea has herself convinced that her act of filicide is completely justified. Her mentality is that of revenge. She believes that because her husband Jason has broken his oath to her, it gives her the justification for committing a mass murder. To exact revenge upon Jason she decides that she is going to murder his soon to be bride, the bride’s father, and at last her two children. In the book, after Medea talks about what she will do to the princess she tells the chorus “ I will kill the children—my children.
This woman sacrifices her loved ones for revenge and hatred. Would anyone want a person of such corrupt morals living in this world? Medea should be found guilty due to the fact that she murdered four innocent people. In conclusion, Medea is to be found a guilty woman through the opening statement, two witness testimonies, and a closing statement. This case displays the consequences of being irrational.