Oedipus Rex

Friar Laurence helps Romeo escape and arranges for him to spend the night with Juliet before leaving for Mantua. Lord Capulet then decides that Juliet will marry Paris, which leads to her pretending to be dead. Ultimately, fate and miscommunication between Romeo, Juliet, and the Friar result in Romeo being banished by Prince Escalus for killing Tybalt.

The moral lessons of Anthony and Cleopatra can be both personal and political lessons depending on what aspect of the play a reader absorbs the most. Mainly, the moral is that love is not so simple as to manage it in the same way one would manage political matters. Both Anthony and Cleopatra at some points in the play take more of a political attitude in managing their personal affairs.

Mantua: City in Italy where Romeo flees after saying his last goodbye to Juliet. He hides here, and waits to hear from the friar. It is here that he learns that Juliet is supposedly dead. Then, on his way to go and see her, he buys poison from an apothecary on the street.

Romeo and Juliet did not actually exist, as far as well can tell, so it's hard to say when they died. The play is not set in any particular year. It's sometimes set in the middle ages, or the Elizabethan era, or in more modern times including contemporary USA.

However, we know what time of year it takes place. The play takes place about the middle of July.

It's also fair to say that they die in the last scene of the play. That's where Romeo and Juliet really live.

The tragic hero in Antigone is generally considered to be Creon. He is a respected king who experiences a downfall due to his tragic flaw of excessive pride and stubbornness. His actions lead to a series of tragic events, ultimately resulting in his own personal suffering and the loss of his family.

The story of Oedipus is an acient Greek tale, written by Sophocles. Oedipus the son of Laius and Jocasta became king of Thebes after killing his father, solving the riddle of the Sphinx and unknowingly marrying his mother. After Oedipus became king, his sons fought over the throne and killed each other. Oedipus is a courageous, well-meaning, extremely proud man. Due to the people of Thebes' intense devotion and praise of Oedipus, he becomes quite arrogant, as shown by his rude treatment of Teiresias, the prophet who sees the truth about Oedipus from the very beginning. He eventually exiles himself at the end of "Oedipus Rex" after Jocasta hangs herself, and he gouges himself in the eyes with her dress brooches. The "Oedipus Complex" as described by Freud, is when a man has a sexual attraction towards their mother.as in Oedipal? It is a Freudian phrase that meant a boy who was too attached to his mother. With the female gender it would be phrased the Electra complex. (a girl very attached to her father; which is often why women are attracted to men who have their father's characteristics.

The initial incident in a story is the event that sets the plot in motion and typically introduces the main conflict. It is the moment where the protagonist's routine is disrupted and they are faced with a challenge or problem that drives the rest of the narrative.

No, Theban Kings Creon and Oedipus aren't half brothers. Instead, their relationship is one of brothers-in-law and of uncle to nephew. They're brothers-in-law, because Oedipus is married to Creon's sister, Theban Queen Jocasta. Their relationship also is one of uncle to nephew, because Oedipus actually and unknowingly is his wife's son from her first marriage to Oedipus' father, deceased Theban King Laius.

The son of Laius, Oedipus killed his father unknowingly.

The messenger has no name, but only brings the information from Corinth, Oedipus' childhood home, that Oedipus' adoptive father, Polybus, is dead. Oedipus is happy because he thinks Polybus is his biological father and he didn't kill him so he defied the prophecy. That is the purpose of the messenger.

The city state of Thebes is plague ridden, a punishment of the Gods. Oedipus is the king of Thebes and he is responsible for what goes on. The punishment, as Teiresias the sooth sayer reports is because Laius the previous king was killed and it was never investigated and the Gods are pissed that a son has married his mother. Teiresias knows that Oedipus is the offender.

Oedipus wanted to see if Teiresias could run an errand for him. He wanted him to go to the store and talk to a man named Miltaway and get a golden egg which is said that all who eat it know the truth of the world. He thinks that by eating this he will know the truth about who killed the former king and then the mystery will be solved.

Sources: I am a college level English Professor that has a class that focuses on just this story. i can assure you that this answer is 100% correct.

If I remember correctly, Thebes was being threatened by a Sphinx and no one had been able to answer the riddle it required to leave them alone. Anyone who attempted to answer and failed was killed by the Sphinx. Oedipus said he would try to answer the riddle because he wanted to free the people of Thebes and obtain the reward the king was offering.

Sophocles, the author of the play, speaks through the oracle.

Theban King Oedipus is father to and half brotherof Antigone. Specifically, he and his daughter have the same mother. But Oedipus is Theban Queen Jocasta's only child from her first marriage to Theban King Laius. Antigone is one of four children that Jocasta has in her second marriage, to her own son.

Yes, Haemon is Antigone's cousin. His father Theban King Creon is the brother of Antigone's mother, Theban Queen Jocasta. Jocasta also is the mother of her second husband, Theban King Oedipus. So Haemon is first cousin to both Antigone and Antigone's father.

Yes. In many ways. Oedipus Rex follows many of the same tragic concepts that Star Wars borrows from in the prequels, and the redemtive death of Oedipus in Oedipus at Colonus is similar to Anakin's death in episode VI. Also, on a more superficial level, there are incestual themes with Luke and Leia, though they don't know that they are siblings, as with Oedipus' relationship with his mother. The premonitions Anakin faces can also be likened to Tiresias' prophecies, both of which reveal painful truths to the hero.

Conflict is shown in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo and Juliet fall in love even though their families hate each other. It creates a problem because they know that their families won't be able to accept them because of the hating thing. I'm 14 years old and never learned anything about Romeo and Juliet . anyway, hope I helped!

Its just greek culture!

The dramatic purpose of the prologue in 'Oedipus Rex' is twofold. On the one hand, it gives the audience and the characters the reasons why the city of Thebes suffers from the plague. The reason is the unsolved mystery of the death of the city's previous sovereign, Theban King Laius. On the other hand, the prologue gives the audience and the characters the means by which the plague is to be ended. Those means are the identification of the King's killers and their punishment by execution or by exile.

Through the use of plot structure, language/dialogue, and the literary devices of irony and foreshadowing.