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        <title><![CDATA[Any essay of this magnitude will require a great deal of analysis with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Any essay of this magnitude will require a great deal of analysis with textual support.  This means that what is generated here has to be reflected upon and analyzed with textual evidence, so be prepared to go back and scour through the text.  The role of revelation is a powerful one and it might be beneficial to analyze Oedipus' reaction to such revelation throughout the text.  For example, when Tiresias enters with his prophecy, examining...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have to write an essay for my AP Literature class on Oedipus Rex, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have to write an essay for my AP Literature class on Oedipus Rex, and I'm having a bit of trouble developing a thesis.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what can only be termed magical thinking permit Oedipus to connect the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what can only be termed magical thinking permit Oedipus to connect the murder of Laius. On what religious must such a connection be based]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:05:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To which prophecy are you referring?  There are no less than 5 oracles...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To which prophecy are you referring?  There are no less than 5 oracles of doom in the Oedipus legend.
#1: Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.
Intelligent decision: Oedipus flees Corinth, where he thinks his parents live.  He doesn't want to harm his family.  I wouldn't say this is a moral decision, as he is trying to escape and deny his problems.  Inevitably, this leads him to Thebes.
#2: The Riddle of the Sphinx
Intelligent...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:04:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A tragedy is about human suffering and is not inherently good or evil....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A tragedy is about human suffering and is not inherently good or evil. Some of the actions of characters in the play may be good or evil, but the play itself is not. In Hamlet, Claudius's actions are certainly evil and Hamlet's inaction ultimately leads to much suffering, but it is not an evil tragedy. Likewise, Oedipus unwittingly causes the death of his father and a plague to fall upon Thebes in Oedipus Rex, but again, it is not an evil...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:08:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The original founder was Cadmus, who was actually a Phoenician and not a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The original founder was Cadmus, who was actually a Phoenician and not a Greek.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:27:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who was the original founder of Thebes?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who was the original founder of Thebes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:19:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kithairon, or Cithaeron, is not a who but a what. Kithairon is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kithairon, or Cithaeron, is not a who but a what. Kithairon is the western area of a mountain range in Greece. It serves as the border between Athens and Thebes. And it is on the side of that mountain that Oedipus, as a baby, was abandoned to die.
It goes like this:
We learn in the play, as Oedipus himself learns, that Oedipus' father, King Laius, and mother, Queen Jocasta, were unable to have children. King Laius sends for an oracle to see...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:33:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is Kithairon?  How is he connected to Oedipus in Oedipus Rex?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/oedipus-rex/q-and-a/who-kithairon-how-he-connected-oedipus-109195</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who is Kithairon?  How is he connected to Oedipus in Oedipus Rex?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:20:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Oedipus act intelligently or morally with his prophecy of doom...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Oedipus act intelligently or morally with his prophecy of doom in Oedipus Rex?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:10:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cadmus is a Phoenician prince (son of king Agenor of Tyre) who founded...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cadmus is a Phoenician prince (son of king Agenor of Tyre) who founded the city of Thebes. Cadmeia was the original name of Thebes. It was named in his honour. So, house of Cadmus could simply refer to the city.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:27:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[From a thematic point of view, Sophocles' work still holds some powerful...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/oedipus-rex/q-and-a/how-play-oedipus-rex-still-significant-21st-107423</link>
        <description><![CDATA[From a thematic point of view, Sophocles' work still holds some powerful and compelling ideas.  The idea of choice is a highly relevant one as it seeks to strike  at the heart of all human interaction.  The issue of choice and, in particular, when it is in abundance and when it is not is of vital importance to Oedipus Rex, as well as all human beings.  Seeking to understand freedom and choice as well as its parameters will always hold...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:02:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The play is relevant from a literary, historical, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The play is relevant from a literary, historical, and human standpoint.  First, it is--according to Aristotle--the perfect tragedy in terms of plot structure and character development.  Its use of dramatic irony and sudden movement from "peripeteia" to "anagnorisis" to "catastrophe" are all exemplified in Elizabethan and modern tragedy, from Hamlet to Death of a Salesman. 
From a humanistic standpoint, the play deals with eternal themes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:36:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is the play, Oedipus Rex still significant in the 21st century?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is the play, Oedipus Rex still significant in the 21st century?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:56:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In analyzing Oedipus' conditions of tragedy, there are several elements...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In analyzing Oedipus' conditions of tragedy, there are several elements at play.  The first would be that Oedipus is tragically human.  His own sense of pride is a tragic flaw that allows him to believe that he can transcend his own sense of fate.  This belief sows the seeds of his own destruction in his rejection of the prophecy that surrounds him, his banishment of Tiresias, as well as the notion that he, a mortal, can outrun his own...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:37:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What makes Oedipus the King a tragedy?
i.e. how do the features of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/oedipus-rex/q-and-a/what-makes-oedipus-king-tragedy-e-how-do-features-106551</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What makes Oedipus the King a tragedy?
i.e. how do the features of tragedy coincide with Oedipus the King (giving direct examples from the text)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please help me explain the importance of this speech in Oedipus Rex by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please help me explain the importance of this speech in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles &gt;&gt; Tell me not ... myself can underbear (pg 48 in book).]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cadmus is the original name for the city of Thebes.  So, the House of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cadmus is the original name for the city of Thebes.  So, the House of Cadmus is really the House of Thebes.  It is Oedipus and all his decedents as found in Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
It begins with Oedipus's parents, Laius and Jocasta.  Then, as you know, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.  They have four children: Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene.
As you know,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:09:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the house of Cadmus in Oedipus Rex?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the house of Cadmus in Oedipus Rex?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:20:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what does creon report on oedipus rex]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what does creon report on oedipus rex]]></description>
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