How To Use Oedipus In A Sentence
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Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
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We respond to Oedipus' plight, which includes his own feelings of repulsion about incest, an evaluation which we may share.
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Did the Sphinx give Oedipus a clue?
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
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The Chorus reminds Oedipus that he deserved punishment because it was he who first killed his own father Laius on the road to Thebes, committing the same crime of patricide that prohibits him from being buried on Theban soil.
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Oedipus -- his essential innocence, his affectionateness, his uncalculating benevolence and public spirit; -- while his impetuosity and passionateness make the sequel less incredible.
The Seven Plays in English Verse
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Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus.
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The story of Oedipus begins north of ancient Athens, in the kingdom of Thebes where King Laius and his wife, Jocasta, had a son.
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The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
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Like Freud, Stravinsky takes King Oedipus as his sole source, though the libretto by Jean Cocteau employs a dramaturgy often seen as pre-empting the alienation effects of Brechtian theatre.
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It's a sticky soap opera that makes Neighbours look like Oedipus Rex.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses.
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After Laius learns from an oracle that "he is doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," he binds tightly together with a pin the feet of the infant Oedipus and orders Jocasta to kill the infant.
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The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit.
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Hughes' image of the psychic journey Oedipus must undertake, groping his way toward the final and horrible truth of his own actions, is heavily laden with guilt.
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And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
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Later, the oracular prophecies completed their awful and ironic cycle of fulfillment when Oedipus undertook a mission to save Thebes, still acknowledged as his native city, from the predations of a dire female monster, the Sphinx.
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Just as in the case of the relationship between collective ownership and human degeneration, which seemed so "enigmatical" to this same Baron Garofalo -- and although he has not offered his gratitude for the solution of this enigma to the socialist Oedipus who explained it to him -- here also, in the case of this other enigma, the explanation is very simple.
Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)
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Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!
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While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
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She is clearly a near relative of that Oedipus who, in the _Phoenissae_, begs Antigone to lead him to the rock where the Sphinx sat of old (120): dirige huc gressus pedum, hic siste patrem. dira ne sedes vacet. monstrum repone maius. hoc saxum insidens obscura nostrae verba fortunae loquar, quae nemo solvat.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Sophocles's Oedipus is a particular inspiration for endless interfamilial trauma and revenge, apparently.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Now the word is spelled ‘oedipus’ and the digraph is gone from American English orthography.
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Sibling rivalry kills Oedipus' sons.
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In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone.
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You cared about Oedipus and Hamlet because they were noble and you were a groundling.
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At the centre of the Oedipus tragedy is man's struggle to understand the forces of nature that determine the course of events in the world in which he lives.
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Probably less familiar are the subsequent two tragedies in the trilogy: Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.
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Further, Act I introduces two occasions for incest, not one: the consummated incest of Oedipus and Jocasta, mother-son incest; and the potential, though ultimately unperformed, incest between Creon and Eurydice, uncle-niece incest.
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According to Greek legend, it was Oedipus who solved the riddle of the Sphinx.
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Oedipus is one of the most famous characters in Greek tragedy.
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Oedipus seems curiously at home everywhere, as if he were the Everyman of the 20th century.
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The image was one I knew I would never escape, even with daily visits to a certified psychoanalyst with training in hypnosis to eradicate Oedipus complexes.
Director's Cut
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It's debatable whether the studio recording actually contains the f-word, given the incoherent roar Jim Morrison emits at the song's climax, but there's no ambiguity to the Oedipus context in this live version.
Eric Williams: F***ing up the Charts: on F-Words and Music
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Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
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It is the existence of this trend that made Anti - Oedipus possible.
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
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The interest is the interplay between the three main characters, Oedipus himself, Jocasta and her brother Cleon, as the story is unfolded to them by a succession of walk-ons (Tiresias, the messenger, the shepherd, etc) - although the plot covers the whole of Oedipus 'life, the setting of the play respects the unities and takes place over a few hours or possibly days.
Lightsecond
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Oedipus Rex is notable for its use of dramatic irony: everybody in the audience knows from the start that Oedipus himself is the guilty party he seeks out for punishment.
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The illustration of the attitude of son to parent is so transpicuous in the Oedipus legend, that the group of mental processes concerned is generally known as the ‘Oedipus-complex.’
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Like Oedipus this may result in devastating shock.
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Put a modern cinemagoer in front of an ancient staging of Oedipus Rex, and they could easily follow it.
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The event in his life most frequently depicted in classical literature is neither parricide, nor incest, nor blinding, but exile - the least important event in King Oedipus, and therefore in Freud.
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The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
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A further oracular pronouncement has effectively restored Oedipus's free will.
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Oedipus, Antigone and Socrates were the tragic figures mainly - concerned by Hegel.
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And in place of the more easily appropriable concepts that populated Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand
Introduction
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The Oedipus stage manager paces anxiously by the footlights.
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The Oedipus story's, I think, the grimmest of all oracle stories and it's the one where the freedom of the person consulting the oracle seems at its lowest degree.
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Unfortunately, fate did , Cao Guanghan Oedipus complex a couple of lines can not be real.
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Alfaro's idea is that Jocasta is the wife of gangland kingpin Laius David Anzuelo, who orders the murder of the infant Oedipus after a seer prophesies the son's murder of the father.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth
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Whereas incest and parricide are the foretold destiny of Oedipus, that which causes his tragedy and Jocasta's destruction, here incest and parricide are by-products of the institution of slavery.
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In this paper 1 shall discuss only King Oedipus, the key play in Sophocles' trilogy.
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There is the Oedipus Complex, at best, so easy to marry a wife more than Sister.
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He arranges a side-by-side comparison of Oedipus' irony and pathos with the wildness of his passion.
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He then tells of how "the poet in his hillside garden above the San Francisco Bay merged with the figure of Oedipus toiling up the wooded slope at Colonus, only to disappear in the blink of an eye.
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Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, for example, deals with something so psychologically basic that people from all cultures can respond to it.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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Oedipus orders Tiresias to leave, and Tiresias does so gladly, as he did not want to be there to begin with.
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An unavenged murder could in extreme cases cause barrenness and crop failure, as in Sophocles ' Oedipus the King.
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He tells Oedipus the city is drowning and almost dead - the soil is unfertile, the cattle pastures are burnt, and babies are all stillborn.
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We come now to the vexed questions of the Oedipus complex, childhood amnesia, and the so-called latency period, which is supposed to follow the Oedipal phase.
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Thus, like Oedipus, Augustus, as the seeming outsider, is able to fathom the entrammeling web of the double curse which ‘lies over the land,’ and cut boldly through its snares.
