Antigone

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Sophocles delays Creon's entrance into the dialogue until after Antigone has had a chance to defend herself and explain her actions. This delay creates a sense of anticipation and anxiety in the audience as they wait to see how Creon will respond to Antigone's defense.

When Creon finally enters the dialogue, he does so with a sense of power and authority, which intensifies the tension in the scene. He is angry and indignant that Antigone has disobeyed his edict and insists on punishing her severely.

Why would Creon have regarded Polyneices as a renegade

It's a combination of shame for fulfilling the prophecy, not being able to cheat destiny and sleeping with her own son.

Teiresias the blind prophet warns Theban King Creon about the precariousness of his own happiness and security. He indicates that just as Thebans suffer great sorrow, so too will Teiresias. Specifically, he cautions the King to beware of the rounds that Death and Misfortune are making in the city of Thebes. Tesiresas essentially asks why Creon should think that his household and his position will be spared when atraditional laws defy the gods and the god given rights of Thebans.

Oedipus, not knowing what he did, declared that the murderer of King Laius would be killed or exiled. He also prayed that the murderer would live a life of wretchedness.

Oedipus remembers meeting a man at a place where three roads meet, and killing him there. When he finds out that Laius was killed by a man at a three-way crossroad, Oedipus suspects that he killed him.

Oedipus liberated Thebes by solving the Sphinx's riddle. The Sphinx had placed a heavy tax on the Thebans and forced them into poverty. Oedipus was able to conquer and banish the Sphinx.

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He was a mythical Greek king of Thebes

Dude and O what a T R A G E D Y !!! ...esp the part where he consults the Oracle Of Delphi ,spurned on by the suspicion that King Polybus & the Queen are not his parents, and the Oracle lets slip that hes going to bed his mother and murder his "sire" , of course revolted by this , he leaves his adopted parents , and so the tsunami of FATE , the gates that held back destiny , as he caressed the wheat fields on those summer days , lush green grass , babbling streams , happy playful jocularity , pass through his fingers as if an ogre of optimism wills to cup and drink from a stream of mercury , as that fast super liquid metal of solid shimmer , slips through the might of true hearts , that can never achieve justice , for whispering voices have doomed their fate so.

After the innocuous , unassuming , everyday hustle bustle , chariot encounter HE MURDERS HIS FATHER !...Tragic , more so when you reason that Oedipus is such a man that he left his ROYAL household behind in fear , that this kind of catastrophe might happen .Its the awe , of being dragged along by a current and there's nothing you can do , its like watching a NIGHTMARE , but the action hero is YOU , in his mortal might , he who can commit morale decision {like he left his parents , thinking it could be them} in his physical power {as in the murder of another man , Laius his father , unbeknownst to Oedipus}and yet still this rushing current of an estranged undesired fate , twits & turns everything , if you think about it , even if you knew , what can you do ! Another horror of the time , "not knowing" , as conveyed to us in the part where he discloses the "Riddle of the Sphinx" {"Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?" She strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: "Man-who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age".} What irony , not knowing could spell death , and the whole crux of the play is that his parents KNEW!!! , willed to save this man{which Oedipus grew up to be } and themselves by committing infanticide.

The distraught Sphinx throws herself off the cliff side. Oedipus's reward for freeing the kingdom of Thebes from her curse is the kingship and the hand of Queen Dowager Jocasta, his biological mother. The prophecy is thus fulfilled, although none of the main characters know it.Again this constant HORRIFYING theme , THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW , stemming from a play where THEY DID KNOW AND THOUGHT THAT THEY {including Oedipus} HAD ACTED TO AVOID TRAGEDY .................. wow !

... Thebans arrive at the palace to call upon their King, Oedipus, to aid them with the plague of Apollo ravaging the city. Oedipus had sent his brother-in-law Creon to ask help of the oracle at Delphi, and he returns at that moment. Creon says the plague is the result of religious pollution, caused because the murderer of their former King, Lauis, had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for the plague that he has caused. I mean that is just such an unbelievable twist , Oedipus is in search of his fathers killer ! It just defies FICTION , again reasserting itself as a master of tragic performance , that can only be summed up in the phrase that "Sometimes TRUTH is stranger than FICTION" which brings home the reality of such a tragedy.

Tiresias the prophet leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes; brother and father to his own children; and son and husband to his own mother.I mean can you really just mentally digest the ongoing theme , the prophet who Oedipus consults IS BLIND !!!...And to talk about NOT KNOWING , the prophet refuses to say , only telling Oedipus to call of his search for the killer of the King , WHO IS INFACT OEDPISU S REAL FATHER , BUT OEDIPUS DOES N O T KNOW !!! O the tragedy of the mortal condition , truly it can be said "Ignorance is bliss"

Oedipus's wife Jocasta {his MOM} enters, and attempts to comfort Oedipus, telling him he should take no notice of prophets. Many years ago she and Laius received an oracle which never came true. It was said that Laius would be killed by his own son, but, as all Thebes knows, Laius was killed by bandits at a crossroads on the way to Delphi.

TAA DAA TAAA DAAAAAAAA , ALARM BELLS RING ... Thrusting tragedy after slashing catastrophe , it is as if it were symphony .Now Oedipus discovers , that it was him , on that crossroads , and that bit of WWF wrestling and a spot of rush hour commuter murder , WAS IN FACT HIS FATHER !!!

NOTE: How at the time , the King was on his way to Delphi , a place famed for its , fore SIGHT , hind SIGHT , , ,{"Let us not again wonder our destiny , for it is through the cloak of ignorance that a mans life we shall see" 1725}

Well , Oedipus finds out , his MOM , hangs herself , he storms round the palace asking for a sword {there's really no need for him to do this , i mean he is royalty , not short of a few pennies,but this is what nobility and having scruples does to you} he sees his MOMs body , takes it down , and with the gold pins that fastened her dress , STABS his eyes out ... O how very tragic , O how very torturous , O how very forlorn in misery & despair he must be to loose his SIGHT {because he never knew , he really genuinely did not know}

On an empty stage the chorus repeat the common Greek maxim, that no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead .Because that man realises that there are powers , be they preternatural or or natural , THAT ARE OUT OF YOUR CONTROL , like the statue of justice which is blind folded , for fear of discrimination , but surely the Gods {in there piety should have divinely intervened, seeing how it was set in polytheistic early Athenian society , surely they could see} ...

Of course , I could go on , but I hope in this summarily created synopsis , Ive to some extent conveyed to you the reason , why Oedipus Rex is considered one of the most spledid tragic plays of ancient Greece ... :]

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Anagnorisis is the tragic hero's change from ignorance to knowledge. In the case of 'Oedipus Rex', Theban King Oedipus changes from ignorance to knowledge of the workings of fatein his life. For example, he begins with a view in which he believes that he can control world events because of his free will. But the more he tries to escape his fate, the closer he gets to it. Oedipus learns of his predicted fate to kill his father and marry his mother. He thinks that he can escape such a horrendous fate by fleeing his home in Corinth. Little does he know that Corinthian King Polybus and Corinthian Queen Merope aren't his biological parents. In his ignorance, Oedipus ultimately ends up in his true hometown of Thebes. On the way, he comes to the meeting place of three roads. At that crossroads, a stranger engages him in a street brawl over the right-of-way. Oedipus kills in self-defense the stranger, who actually is his own father and sovereign, Theban King Laius. At Thebes, he saves the city's people from the Sphinx. As a reward, he marries Laius' grieving widow, Theban Queen Jocasta. The happy couple became parents to twin sons, and two daughters. Unbeknownst to Oedipus, his doom is complete since Jocasta is his biological mother. And so Oedipus begins with a confident belief in his ability to control his life. He ends with a horrified realization of his complete inability to escape his fate. So he moves from a position of free will to one of fateful resignation.

Oedipus was raised by the King and Queen of Corinth...those were his "adoptive parents." His actual parents were King Laios and Queen Jocaste of Thebes. His original parents "executed" him after hearing the fate of their son Oedipus.