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- 271: The Waste Land: Tiresias as Christ
- ... a blind man who is old and wrinkled, but able to see things. Tiresias sees many things throughout the poem. According to J.G. Keogh in, O City, O City: Oedipus in The Waste Land, "Tiresias can imagine how things look from what he hears: the clatter of breakfast things, the thudding of tins, the sounds of the typist's young ...
- 272: Antigone
- ... heard. Her thoughts are not taken into consideration. Her virtue and intellect are not respected. A woman is the "effect" of the "cause" that is man. The women in the Oedipus Trilogy are depicted in such a manner. They are almost background figures, reacting to events, but not causing them. These women have feelings appropriate to their time and place. Antigone ...
- 273: Antigone 9
- ... nine main characters. I will focus on only a few of these characters. The play starts with Antigone (niece of Creon) and her sister Ismene talking about how their father Oedipus died, and how his death brought very hard times. Their brothers Eteocles and Polynices have just died fight each other. Eteocles was fighting for the city, while Polynices was fighting ...
- 274: Antigone Paper
- ... the image of a tragic hero. Creon has assumed the throne and has the hard task of bringing a divided city together, which has lost three kings relatively fast. King Oedipus dies and his two heirs fight each other for the crown resulting in both of their deaths. Creon wants to make sure he becomes a respected and somewhat feared ruler ...
- 275: Fifth Business Character Foils
- ... as I had had one mother, and lost her, I was not in a hurry to acquire another - not even a young and beautiful one with whom I could play Oedipus to both our hearts’ content. If I could manage it, I had not intention of being anybody’s own dear laddie, ever again. (Page 88) There are many ways in ...
- 276: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... the author and the reader in The Crying of Lot 49. The most obvious one is the name of the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, which elicits the famous Greek riddle-solver Oedipus, whose quest to interpret the Delphic prophecies leads to his own downfall. Oedipa Mass also evokes the reader to think of Newton¡¦s laws, where Oedipa is acted upon by ...
- 277: Comparison Of Mark Twain And W
- ... the author and the reader in The Crying of Lot 49. The most obvious one is the name of the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, which elicits the famous Greek riddle-solver Oedipus, whose quest to interpret the Delphic prophecies leads to his own downfall. Oedipa Mass also evokes the reader to think of Newton¡¦s laws, where Oedipa is acted upon by ...
- 278: Is Antigone A Tragic Play As D
- ... you yourself have brought this new calamity upon us. Our hearths and altars are stained with the corruption of dogs and carrion birds that glut themselves on the corpse of Oedipus’ son. The gods are deaf when we pray to them....” And then later tells Creon of the revenge of the Gods, “The time is not far off when you shall ...
- 279: Death Of A Salesman Log
- ... succeeding. Miller departed from the accepted norm for a tragedy by making his flawed hero a simple salesman. Some find it hard to raise Willy Loman to the level of Oedipus or Medea; however, Miller could not make portray Middle America, through such a great character. What makes Miller brilliant, is that he can makes us pity, a born loser, and ...
- 280: Antigone And Creon
- ... made in tragedies. They should have learned what not to be like as a citizen or human. In the classic tragedy Antigone, the third and final play in Sophocles¹s Oedipus Cycle, there are two main characters, Antigone and Creon. They are both strong willed and stubborn people. By their resistance to change, they both seal each others fate. Antigone is ...
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