Essays on Oedipus

I decided to write about the tragic hero topic this week because when reading about Oedipus it made me think a lot about different things that could have gone wrong and right if different decision where made. In the story Oedipus was seen as a…

“Who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind” by Sophocles. This quote is a remarkable and famous quote from Oedipus Rex, concisely summarizing the controversy within the play in a single sentence. Oedipus, who is blind to the truths around…

Tragedy Comparison Essay A Doll’s House and Oedipus are two very different stories in very different timelines, however, they both struggle with the same hardships that remain universal today. Both “Oedipus” and “A Doll’s House” the same qualities that are in various tragedies, and both…