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The Incredible Oedipal - Online Term Paper

The Incredible Oedipal

Eric Lee
AP English
Period 7/8

The Incredible Oedipal Essay

Opening Paragraph

* Clear division and definition in the role of women and men

+ Men all the power

+ Women no power

First Body Paragraph (Oedipus)

* Powerful leader of Thebes

* Has all the power and everyone has to follow his rule

* "You wait and see!... One who has no more authority than a common slave can ill afford to put on airs. And yet, this girl, already versed in disrespect the first time she disobeyed my law, Now adds a second insult, has done it again, and vaunts it to my face. Oh, she's the man, not I, if she can lout authority and walk away unscathed." (Sophocles 211)

* "Curse you! Find ...

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to things like this and worse." (Sophocles 193).

* "Yes, more than must. And you are doomed to fail." (Sophocles 195).

* "Then what is left of life to me when you are gone?" (Sophocles 215)

Third Body Paragraph (Antigone)

* Defies all of the typical roles of women and men

* Is a women, but acts as powerful as a man

* Defies all of Oedipus's (man's) commands and acts freely

* "He is my brother still, and yours; though you would have it otherwise, but I shall not abandon him." (Sophocles 193).

* "I did. I deny not a thing." "Of course I knew. Was it not publicly proclaimed?" (Sophocles 210)

* "Naturally! Since Zeus never promulgated such a law... And I, whom no man's frown can frighten... For this, I feel no twinges of regret. And if you judge me fool, perhaps it is because a fool is judge." (Sophocles 210-211)

* "See me, Thebes, I am going, now going! See me, divine ancestral Thebes! Cast but a glance, you her princes, on this last and lonely royal ...

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Added: 12/6/2012 11:10:33 PM
Submitted By: ericlotrtt
Category: Film & Theater
Type: Free Paper
Words: 414
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