When Oedipus asks why this case was not investigated the people respond that they were too busy trying to solve the sphinx’s riddle. Oedipus vows that no matter what the cost is, he will get to the bottom of it, both because it harmed Thebes and Laius was noble and loyal. Oedipus calls upon Teiresias, the blind prophet, and forces him to reveal what he knows of the murder. Teiresias reluctantly tells Oedipus that he killed his father and sleeps with his mother. Oedipus accuses him of lying on Creons behalf so Creon could kill Oedipus and take the throne.
Antigone, one of the few full plays by Sophocles we know of today, deals with Antigone, Oedipus’s daughter as she goes against Creon’s law to bury her dead brother, an act she believes is worth it, for the Gods are more important than the law. The play focuses on the issues this situation put’s forward, namely, whether or not Polyneices deserve burial rights, whether someone who buried him against the laws of Creon should be punished, and if Creon should have the right to be king. This leads us to not only analyze these questions but also some of the main elements of the play. Firstly, since the issue surrounding the burial rights of Polyneices is dealt with early on in the play, the play focuses on the latter two questions. Should someone who defied the laws Creon put forward be punished?
At first, her dream of his death keeps him home, but Decius is able to convince him that this wife is silly in her concern. Clearly, Calpurnia is not as powerful a woman as Portia. However, both women go to extreme actions to attempt to sway their husbands. Ironically, Calpurnia's dream of a Caesar statue bleeding from a hundred holes with which Romans bath their hands, is an accurate prediction of Caesar's death, which occurs in the Act 3. Decius first mocks the dream, saying, "Bring up the Senate till another time, / When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams" 2.2.98-99).
In Euripides’ Medea, readers see Medea, the allegedly monstrous wife of Jason, hero of the Greek people. Many critics have since held up Euripides’ play as further proof of Medea’s monstrosity in her infanticide, labeling her a “Monstrous Mother”. However, throughout Medea’s interactions with other characters, her mistreatment by her husband Jason, and her interactions with her children, the reader sees Medea in a new light: she is no longer monstrous. In fact the ideas of mythic and monstrous mothers no longer apply to Medea; she falls between both realms. Euripides can arguably be a proto-feminist, as he intends Medea to be seen as a barbarian troubled by Greek culture, due to her outsider nature, she cannot survive in not only this Greek environment, but an environment ran by men.
Now guaranteed a home in Athens, Medea has cleared all obstacles to completing her revenge, a plan which grows to include the murder of her own children; the pain their loss will cause her does not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel in making Jason suffer. Medea then pretends to sympathize with Jason and offers his wife the gifts of a crown and robe. Allegedly, the gifts are meant to convince Glauce to ask her father to allow the children to stay in Corinth. The crown and robe are actually poisoned, however, and their delivery causes Glauce's death. Seeing his daughter withered
Oedipus Rex heard from the oracle, when he was an adult that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus Rex runs away from Corinth and by coincidence he ends back in Thebes, where originally he is from. Now king and husband in his actual fathers place. Another example is, in this play, the crossroads represents fate and the extraordinary power of prophecy than freedom and choice. A crossroad is a place where a choice has to be made, so crossroads represents moments where decisions will have important consequences but where different choices are still possible.
Instead of living her life in shame, she decided to marry him to cover this dark part of her past. Their marriage was based off of strife and anger. From their marriage came Ares—god of war, Hephaestus, Eileithyia—goddess of childbirth and Hebe—the goddess of youth. Another one of his female counterparts was Metis, a cunning Titan goddess of good counsel and wisdom, was a counselor to Zeus during the Titan War. After being in power, he impregnated her.
Once he grants Psyche her desire to see her sisters, they plant evil thoughts and her head and raise certain questions, which make Psyche skeptical. She begins to question her love and lets others opinion get the best of her. I don’t understand why she just couldn’t continue living the life she loved along with the man she loved. Subsequently, to the aforementioned I am able to include Propp’s trickery function into the story. Psyche was not only tricked by Venus, the villain, but also by her sisters.
Jocasta says: “You now, free yourself from these matters; /listen to me and learn why nothing mortal/can show you anything of prophecy.” (735-738). She says this to Oedipus when he begins to impugn his belief in free will, claiming that fate may be too powerful to escape. Jocasta is expressing her disbelief in fate and disclaiming the prophecies made by the “gods”. This is a strong statement of blasphemy considering she is the queen of Thebes. However, she
The main conflict of the play starts with the plague that Oedipus has to void in order to save the people of Thebes. Everything was good after he solved Sphinx’s riddle and became a king. To find the answer to a terrible plague that started to destroy the city, he sends a messenger to oracle. The answer received was to find and punish the killer of Laius, a former king of Thebes. He was told that the only man who escaped from the group of robbers, who attacked the king, is in the city.