Oedipus Rex

Mercutio is Romeo's close friend and a witty, quick-witted and hot-tempered young man in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." His spirited personality serves as a foil to Romeo's more romantic and introspective nature. Mercutio's death at the hands of Tybalt is a turning point in the play.

Romeo had not been talking to anyone and seemed distracted.

In Mantua, Romeo's servant Balthasar arrives and tells Romeo that Juliet is dead. Romeo vows to see Juliet in her tomb and poison himself there, buying the poison from a poor Apothecary who illegally sells it to Romeo only because he (the Apothecary) needs the money. At Lawrence's cell, Friar John reports he could not deliver the letter to Romeo since he (John) got stuck in a quarantined house while searching for Romeo. Friar Lawrence heads to the cemetery with a crowbar. At the tomb, Paris and his page arrive and Paris mourns Juliet's death. Paris hides when he hears Romeo and Balthasar approach. Romeo orders Balthasar to leave him alone, no matter what he hears. When Romeo opens the tomb, Paris steps out and tries to stop him by provoking him to fight. Romeo entreats Paris to simply walk away and not fight, but Paris forces Romeo to fight him, resulting in Romeo slaying Paris. In sorrow, Romeo lays Paris in the tomb, while Paris' page secretly leaves to call the watch. Romeo finds Juliet and mourns her death, then drinks his poison and dies. Outside the tomb, Friar Lawrence arrives and meets Balthasar who tells the Friar that Romeo has been in the tomb for one half hour. Lawrence enters the tomb and finds Romeo and Paris dead. Juliet then awakes and spots Romeo. The Friar, upon hearing noises outside flees, leaving Juliet with Romeo. Juliet tries to kill herself with Romeo's poison, but can find none, either in the vial or on Romeo's lips. In desperation, she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger. The watch arrives, having found Balthasar and the Friar. The Prince and Lord and Lady Capulet arrive and learn Paris, Romeo, and Juliet are dead (amazingly to them, Juliet seems to have been alive, and then newly dead again). Lord Montague arrives and reports that his wife has died from grief over Romeo's exile, then learns himself of Romeo's death. Capulet and Montague make peace and swear to never fight again. They vow to build solid gold statues of Romeo and Juliet and place them side by side so all can remember their plight.

The short form: Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves and their parents decide to reconcile as a result.

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!