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How do the Thebans show love and respect to Oedipus as their king?
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It's clear that Theban citizens love and respect Oedipus as their King, because of the Priest's actions and comments in the Prologue to 'Oedipus Rex'. For example, the Priest sets up his sacrificial altar in front of Oedipus' palatial home. He also conveys the citizens' requests for Oedipus' help in ending the plague. Additionally, he reminds Oedipus of previously successful feats of valor against other challenges, such as the Sphinx. Specifically, he addresses Oedipus as 'most powerful in all men's eyes'.
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How is Oedipus' relationship with Thebans in 'Oedipus Rex'?
One of sovereign to subjects is Oedipus' relationship with the people of Thebes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus is king of Thebes. He has the job because it is his reward for stopping the Sphinx from eating freshly killed Thebans. But he earns and keeps his people's love and respect by anticipating their needs and being open with them
Who is the tragic hero in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Theban King Oedipus is the tragic hero in the play 'Oedipus Rex'. A hero is someone who does great deeds, and has great powers. Oedipus is heroic in his defeating the Sphinx, who overtaxes all Thebans and kills Theban residents and visitors.Something tragic is something that leads to an unhappy ending or outcome. Oedipus loses his wife, his sight, his reputation, his possessions, his job, and his home. Additionally, he loses the love and the respect of his twin sons, Eteocles and Polyneices.Two main things are salvaged from the scandal of his albeit unknowing murder of his father and his sovereign and his albeit unknowing incest with his mother. He still has the love and the respect of his daughter Antigone. And he still has his physical life to lead as a blind expatriate.
Is Oedipus a tragic hero?
Yes, Theban King Oedipus is a tragic hero. Someone who is 'tragic' meets with an unhappy end. Someone who is a 'hero' does great deeds and also may have great powers. Oedipus answers to the position description on both counts.Oedipus is tragic, because he loses almost everything that has any meaning to him in the end. All that remains, ultlimately, are his life and the love of his daughter Antigone. Specifically, Oedipus loses his wife, his sight, his reputation, his possessions, his job, and his home.But at the same time, the King also is a hero. He does great deeds. He alone figures out how to save Thebes from the Sphinx that overtaxes Thebans and kills Theban residents and visitors.
Was Oedipus a tyrannical leader?
Yes and no. According to the original meaning of the word, Theban King Oedipus was a tyrant. Originally, a tyrant seized power illegally. That's what Oedipus did by killing his father and his sovereign, Theban King Laius. He didn't know whom he was killing when he responded with violence to violent behavior by a stranger who was old enough to be his father and whom he resembled. But the fact remained that he committed murder and didn't go through the necessary cleansing of required purification ceremonies. So his rise to power was illegal in Thebes.But according to the modern definition, Oedipus may not have been a tyrant. He didn't appear to be viewed as arbitrary, cruel or selfish by his subjects. Instead, he appeared to have gained the love and respect of the Theban people. In the play, for example, his fellow Thebans referred to his bravery against the frightening Sphinx whom he alone outwitted and defeated.
Why does Oedipus become king in 'Oedipus Rex'?
That the Theban throne was vacant and that he won both the love of his royal predecessor's beautiful widow and the respect of his future subjects are the reasons why Oedipus becomes King of Thebes in "Oedipus Rex."Specifically, the previous king, Laius, leaves Thebes to consult the Delphic Oracle, but never returns. Shortly after Laius' disappearance, Oedipus shows up and frees all Thebes from the bullying ways and the bottomless stomach of a monstrous Sphinx that has set up camp outside the city walls. Oedipus thereby becomes the hero of all Thebes, as well as of Theban Queen Jocasta, Laius' widow and co-ruler of Thebes with her brother, Theban King Creon.No one has any objection to Oedipus as a conquering hero and a beloved second husband. So Oedipus becomes king even though proper procedure actually is not observed. In fact, not only the newly wed royal couple but indeed all Thebes should have looked into the who, what, where, why, and how of Laius' disappearance. Thebans instead return to life as usual.Not once does anyone in the entire city consider that the unsolved mystery of Laius' disappearance leaves the entire city, and especially the royal family, polluted and polluting in a city increasingly polluted by this one critical non-observance of divine-ordained actions and purification rituals.
How is Oedipus' relationship with Thebans in 'Oedipus Rex'?
One of sovereign to subjects is Oedipus' relationship with the people of Thebes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus is king of Thebes. He has the job because it is his reward for stopping the Sphinx from eating freshly killed Thebans. But he earns and keeps his people's love and respect by anticipating their needs and being open with them
Who is the tragic hero in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Theban King Oedipus is the tragic hero in the play 'Oedipus Rex'. A hero is someone who does great deeds, and has great powers. Oedipus is heroic in his defeating the Sphinx, who overtaxes all Thebans and kills Theban residents and visitors.Something tragic is something that leads to an unhappy ending or outcome. Oedipus loses his wife, his sight, his reputation, his possessions, his job, and his home. Additionally, he loses the love and the respect of his twin sons, Eteocles and Polyneices.Two main things are salvaged from the scandal of his albeit unknowing murder of his father and his sovereign and his albeit unknowing incest with his mother. He still has the love and the respect of his daughter Antigone. And he still has his physical life to lead as a blind expatriate.
Is Oedipus a tragic hero?
Yes, Theban King Oedipus is a tragic hero. Someone who is 'tragic' meets with an unhappy end. Someone who is a 'hero' does great deeds and also may have great powers. Oedipus answers to the position description on both counts.Oedipus is tragic, because he loses almost everything that has any meaning to him in the end. All that remains, ultlimately, are his life and the love of his daughter Antigone. Specifically, Oedipus loses his wife, his sight, his reputation, his possessions, his job, and his home.But at the same time, the King also is a hero. He does great deeds. He alone figures out how to save Thebes from the Sphinx that overtaxes Thebans and kills Theban residents and visitors.
Was Oedipus a tyrannical leader?
Yes and no. According to the original meaning of the word, Theban King Oedipus was a tyrant. Originally, a tyrant seized power illegally. That's what Oedipus did by killing his father and his sovereign, Theban King Laius. He didn't know whom he was killing when he responded with violence to violent behavior by a stranger who was old enough to be his father and whom he resembled. But the fact remained that he committed murder and didn't go through the necessary cleansing of required purification ceremonies. So his rise to power was illegal in Thebes.But according to the modern definition, Oedipus may not have been a tyrant. He didn't appear to be viewed as arbitrary, cruel or selfish by his subjects. Instead, he appeared to have gained the love and respect of the Theban people. In the play, for example, his fellow Thebans referred to his bravery against the frightening Sphinx whom he alone outwitted and defeated.
Why does Oedipus become king in 'Oedipus Rex'?
That the Theban throne was vacant and that he won both the love of his royal predecessor's beautiful widow and the respect of his future subjects are the reasons why Oedipus becomes King of Thebes in "Oedipus Rex."Specifically, the previous king, Laius, leaves Thebes to consult the Delphic Oracle, but never returns. Shortly after Laius' disappearance, Oedipus shows up and frees all Thebes from the bullying ways and the bottomless stomach of a monstrous Sphinx that has set up camp outside the city walls. Oedipus thereby becomes the hero of all Thebes, as well as of Theban Queen Jocasta, Laius' widow and co-ruler of Thebes with her brother, Theban King Creon.No one has any objection to Oedipus as a conquering hero and a beloved second husband. So Oedipus becomes king even though proper procedure actually is not observed. In fact, not only the newly wed royal couple but indeed all Thebes should have looked into the who, what, where, why, and how of Laius' disappearance. Thebans instead return to life as usual.Not once does anyone in the entire city consider that the unsolved mystery of Laius' disappearance leaves the entire city, and especially the royal family, polluted and polluting in a city increasingly polluted by this one critical non-observance of divine-ordained actions and purification rituals.
What argument does Creon use to convince Oedipus he did not conspire with Tiresias to implicate the king as the murderer of Laius?
love
Who married there own mother?
King Oedipus in the Oedipus trilogy married his mother and killed his father. The Oedipus trilogy was written by Sophocles. Later Freud would coin the term Oedipus complex when boys would love their mothers a little too much.
Who is Oedipus' daughter?
Antigone and Ismene are Theban King Oedipus' daughters. Antigone appears to be the elder. She's engaged to her cousin, Haemon. Ismene appears to be younger, and seems to have no love interest.
Is jocasta in love with Oedipus?
yes
What are the five points of the king crown representing?
They represent loyalty, respect, love, sacrifice and honor
To love is respect To respect is love?
thats true
How are Queens Gertrude in 'Hamlet' and Jocasta in 'Oedipus Rex' similar and different?
That they tragically love second husbands but that Gertrude's husband is a villain and Jocasta's is not are the ways in which Gertrude in "Hamlet" and Jocasta in "Oedipus Rex" are respectively similar and different.Specifically, Danish Queen Gertrude falls in love with Claudius, the brother and killer of her first husband. Theban Queen Jocasta falls in love with Oedipus, the son and killer of her first husband. But Claudius kills his brother knowingly and treacherously, in order to become king. In contrast, Oedipus murders his father unknowingly, in an act of self-defense.
