Antigone: The Feminazi

Since Oedipus's time the majority of society wants women to sit a home and do the everyday household things. This type of thought was evident in Antigone's story. Until the 20th Century women we revoked thier rights on the basis of these thoughts. In Antigone's story Antigone was one of the first feminists to stand up against this Idea. She didn't want be discriminated against and she would go aginst her ideas. She felt one way and even though Creon felt differently she refused to step down. This is the way most of the feminists today think.

Antigone: The Feminazi

What's in the Bag???

I believe that I can control the smallest and largest decisions in my life. In my opinion, we don't have a predetermined destiny. We control where we go and who we become. If there were a predetermined destiny then what would be the point in working hard in life? No one can prove either beliefs; it's just what's your opinon. The truth of it is; is that you end where you end up. No one knows if it were predetermined or your choice to end up where you are.

Fate vs. Freewill

From the text:
The entire chorus song during the prologue.


In Oedipus Rex, the main theme is the belief in fate. Fate is the deciding factor in his world. Today, I believe that the deciding factor that we belive in is freewill. Most of us today believe that we can decide our own fate. There were very few people in those days that believed that they could control thier own fate. Oedipus believes the gods decide what his fate was; as did most during the sophocles era. This play shows that Oedipus could not avoid his fate no matter how far he believed he was from it.

Blind, Deaf, or Mute?

Blind, because my other senses would be strengthened. If I were blind then I could still hear and get around. If I were mute then I couldn't communicate without sign language. If I were deaf then I would have to learn sign language to communicate with others. However, if I were blind then I could not drive and would need a dog and a stick to go anywhere. I would not want to be deaf, because that would include being mute and deaf.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm too young to have known him, but since I live in atlanta and get reminded everyday what a great man he is. I was in NY for King weekend and they replayed the "I have a Dream" speach and it gave my goosebumps all across my back. His actions makes me realize how much we should stand up for our beliefs. He was a great man and revolutionized the ideas of non-violent protest and standing up for what we believe.

He was one of the major leaders of the NAACP and the SCLC(I think). Martin Luther King changed the face of this earth as we know it. Back then the black people dealt with injustice and prejudice everyday. I believe many people fealt the same way that Martin Luther Knig Jr. did, but they didn't stand up and speak. But once Rev. King stood up and spoke; it was the start of creating a better place for all americans.

Oedipus Rex

PART I
On the writing of Sigmund Freud:
This story is based on the fate that you can't escape the gods. Oedipus like us all have a predetermined destiny. Freud explains how from the age of 2 to 6 we will wish our fathers death and wish to have sexual relations with our mothers.

PART II

1. Line 16-17 (page 961) and Line 120 (page 963)
These lines best decribe who Oedipus is as a person.
2. We feel sympahty(pathos) because he is is trying to solve the crime that he commited. Since the Audience knows what he doesn't we show sympathy for him.
3. I feel that the imagery of disease, death, and plague affect the audience by giving them a sense of a gloomy and dramatic scene. This makes the audience feel what it must be like to live in Thebes.
4.List of Motifs:
a. death
b. fate
c. god's will
These are all reoccuring themes in the story of King Oedipus.
5. The chorus after the prolouge is singing about the fate of Oedipus. They mention the will of Apollo and Zeus in the song. The choir also shows what the town of Thebes is like; gloomy and filled with plague and death.

PART III
1. Lines 112-114 (page 969) and Lines 81-86 (page 968) explain Teiresias' role in the story and help to establish his internal conflict.
2. The external conflict in Scene One was that no one knows at this time who is the murderer of Laius. Oedipus' being a "Stranger to this tale" shows this external conflict. The need of the oracle and wanting to find the culprit are examples of external conflict.
3. When Oedipus says that he is King and will find the murderer and either excile or execute him is an example of his hubris.
4.The dramatic irony of this story is that the audience knows what has happened all along and Oedipus has no idea that he killed his father and married his mother.
5. An example of a paradox would be the entire series of events that led to his fathers death. These things go against all common sense but are true.
6. The Chorus at the end of Scene One is singing about the sad truth of Laius death. They are singing about how the gods know what happened and it is inevidable that this truth will come upon Oedipus.

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