adventures of Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex flees Delphi when he hears about an oracle that states he will marry his mother and kill his father. Why did this oracle affect him so much? How did he know this oracle directly relates to him? In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles masterfully incorporates the themes human will versus fate, nature of innocence and guilt, and a quest for identity. Ironically, both Jocasta and Oedipus try to run away from their fate but in the end, fate ends up winning. After Oedipus was made
1) Antigone Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is the main character and the tragic hero in the play by Sophocles. In the beginning Antigone displays a strong attitude that proves how fearless she is to achieve her goals of giving her brother Polyneices the proper burial he deserves. To be able to bury polyneices against the king Creon's decree Antigone is required to break the law. However, she states “I am not afraid of the danger; if it means death”(80) which represents how Antigone is not
According to Foster’s description of an archetype, it sounds to me like it is the prototype for recurring patterns or components that authors use in their stories as plot or symbolic devices; the author may twist the variation of the archetype in their story, but it still bears semblance to the archetype itself and other variations authors have used. One the oldest archetypes known to mankind is the historical fight between good versus evil. You know, the usual: the good side and evil side go up