Oedipus Rex ComparisonsJoin now to read essay Oedipus Rex ComparisonsThe book, Oedipus Rex, has a full range of characters. The colloquy, activity and motivation circle around the characters in the whole story. We find Oedipus Rex trying to get away, from home, to flee the prophecy. The prophecy states that he will kill his father and marry his mother. He also tries to clear up a murder of the old king. Oedipus marries a widow named Iokaste. He also gets advice from a seer named Teiresias. The purpose of this essay is to show the three positive and three negative qualities about these characters in direct and indirect characterization. I will find the qualities of Oedipus, Iokaste and Teiresias.
- The main thing in the book is that a lot of the ideas of this book can relate to the characters in the comic. Like, a lot of the main protagonist was a normal human who used magic. But at the same time, they are just like us as humans, our friends from school, our family. And so we can learn what we learn and how far we learn from the other characters. So we are like us and we can see that it will change in a great deal when it becomes a series. But it also shows some side effects, for example because we are all very well aware of the nature of the world, of how it all works. I think we all are aware of that. And so we can see how we can help to improve and in such a way that we can make life better.
- It’s all the same to me. It’s a great fantasy story. It’s really a story about a boy who is trying to protect his little kingdom from a bunch of wolves that are coming from another civilization. He is trying to find something to protect his little little kingdom from. You’ll find a lot of little monsters lurking. A lot of wolf hunters come and kill each other. And so you get this little monster and then you can kind of explain to him, how this monster is going to defeat the wolf hunters and try to kill him. I love the story very much. But I think there kind of will be some sort of moral dimension with this comic and I think people will love the way this story is expressed
- The main thing is that the characters are kind of self-centered. And that’s what worries me the most. And so when I read a book like this and read this story, I do think sometimes it feels a little too much like a children’s book. Then, even people that do some kind of reading, they will write in real letters. This could be called a children’s book. But I think this would be too much like a story about real-life things being written. This is a very difficult genre to talk about without being a real work. These characters have their own personalities. But I think sometimes there will be some kind of feeling that makes them so much more relatable than real life. That may be the case if we can get this story off like a book.
- Yeah, I believe that. I think it’s the way that there is
- The main thing in the book is that a lot of the ideas of this book can relate to the characters in the comic. Like, a lot of the main protagonist was a normal human who used magic. But at the same time, they are just like us as humans, our friends from school, our family. And so we can learn what we learn and how far we learn from the other characters. So we are like us and we can see that it will change in a great deal when it becomes a series. But it also shows some side effects, for example because we are all very well aware of the nature of the world, of how it all works. I think we all are aware of that. And so we can see how we can help to improve and in such a way that we can make life better.
- It’s all the same to me. It’s a great fantasy story. It’s really a story about a boy who is trying to protect his little kingdom from a bunch of wolves that are coming from another civilization. He is trying to find something to protect his little little kingdom from. You’ll find a lot of little monsters lurking. A lot of wolf hunters come and kill each other. And so you get this little monster and then you can kind of explain to him, how this monster is going to defeat the wolf hunters and try to kill him. I love the story very much. But I think there kind of will be some sort of moral dimension with this comic and I think people will love the way this story is expressed
- The main thing is that the characters are kind of self-centered. And that’s what worries me the most. And so when I read a book like this and read this story, I do think sometimes it feels a little too much like a children’s book. Then, even people that do some kind of reading, they will write in real letters. This could be called a children’s book. But I think this would be too much like a story about real-life things being written. This is a very difficult genre to talk about without being a real work. These characters have their own personalities. But I think sometimes there will be some kind of feeling that makes them so much more relatable than real life. That may be the case if we can get this story off like a book.
- Yeah, I believe that. I think it’s the way that there is
What is the definition of “to see”? I can see you over there. I see what you mean. As someone is watching a movie, they get frightened at the sight and quickly cover their eyes. As people, we are sometimes unable to uncover the real truth. Sometimes the blind can see better than other people who actually have the sight. Oedipus fails to see the truth but Teiresias could see it very clearly. He knows Oedipus was blind and left him. “You call me unfeeling. If you could only see the nature of your own feelings,” says Teiresias (page119). This is a motif in the book. Oedipus has been ignorant in his lifetime. When Teiresias reveals the truth to him, he doesn’t believe him. “I say that you are the murderer whom you seek,” says Teiresias (page119). He also believes that Teiresias was with Kreon, and he was trying to get rid of him. He is very quick to judge people. Oedipus is disrespectful through the whole story. He talked with rage, when he was speaking to Teiresias and Kreon. “Am I to bear this from him? Out of this place! Out of my sight,” yells Oedipus to Teiresias (page120). “No, not exile. It is your death I want, so that the entire world may see what treason means,” says Oedipus to Kreon. Those were his negative qualities. Oedipus is also known for his intelligence. He solved the riddle of the sphinx and married Iokaste who was impressed. He goes around trying to achieve knowledge. Oedipus was a caring person to his people. As the ruler, he speaks directly to them and actually solves their problems as if they were his own. “Sick as you are, not one is as sick as I. Each of you suffers in himself alone. His anguish, not another’s; but my spirit groans for the city, for myself, for you,” says Oedipus (page116). Oedipus liked to solve mysteries like Sherlock Holmes. He wanted to find the person who killed the old king and send them away. “If any man knows by whose hand Laios met his death, I direct that man to tell me everything,” says Oedipus to the Thebians (page118). Those were his three positive qualities.
There are people who keep secrets about other people so they may never find out. It may be something personal, “I stole the candy bar from the store,” or something that involves the country, “Some illegal immigrants have been coming from the south and have been getting jobs.” Iokaste has been secretive through most of the story. She is unwilling to tell Oedipus of his past and tries to stop him from finding it for himself. “Why think of him? Forget this herdsman. Forget it all. This talk is a waste of time,” says Iokaste (page128). She probably also saw the scars on his ankles and kept it a secret. It shouldn’t have taken long to notice that Oedipus was her son. Oedipus believes that Iokaste has a lot of pride. “The Queen, like a woman, is perhaps ashamed to think of my low origin,” says Odysseus (page128). Iokaste was a liar. She told Oedipus the wrong idea about how Laios died. “Laios was killed by marauding strangers where three highways meet; but his child had not been three days in this world before the king had pierced the baby’s ankles and left him to die on a lonely mountainside,” says Iokaste (page124). She uses the word “strangers” meaning that one person could not have killed Laios, so the prophecy could not have been fulfilled. Those would be her negative qualities. Iokaste is faithful to the gods, mainly Apollo. She prays to Apollo to make sure Oedipus does not try to find his past even thought she tries to defy him through the prophecy. “Apollo, since you are nearest, I turn in prayer. Our hearts are heavy with fear when we see our leader distracted, as helpless sailors are terrified by the confusion of their helmsman,” says Iokaste (page126). She is also kind to the people of the town and people who come into the area. Iokaste does not have a temper or go into rage when angry. “I wish as much for you: your courtesy deserves a like good fortune,” says Iokaste (page126). Iokaste is a quick thinker. She always asks Oedipus questions to make him
[quote=Ethan]I’m a big fan of the book. It had a nice amount of magic and stuff, but I’m a big fan of it as well. It’s such a funny way the universe is structured in a way that has this sort of a lot of twists and turns that it’s pretty interesting. It was a really fun way to do it and I really wanted to dig deeper into it because I was really excited about it as well.[/quote]
I’m a big fan of the book.
Now, we’ve talked about a few of the main characters so far. The main ones that really hit your interest is that there’s this little wolf named Ben. I think it is sort of the same type of monster that you have with the vampires, which was a bit of a bummer. But Ben’s a bit darker and it seems he is, in some ways, more twisted than the vampires. There’s a lot more horror, it’s a bit darker, but there is a way of putting it that is really interesting.[/p>
[quote=Matt]For I could be totally wrong, but I do find that this sort of story was an interesting way to wrap things up. That it was kind of kind of like what I heard from some of the other places that got in, that there was a world in some way built on the past. And as an aside… I have one objection to being a big fan of J.K. Rowling but I’m not a big fan of the J.K. Rowling story: that there is a lot of stuff that’s weird and interesting about what makes the world of Harry Potter interesting. We saw some of the stuff that’s actually new here in the comic (The Towering Inferno, The Deathly Hallows of Grimmauld Place, J.K.’s favorite place with witches). I do have a fondness for the dark side of Hogwarts. It seems to be, as I said earlier, what was a huge fan of how we’re dealing with Harry Potter. Not only does there seem to have been a lot of things where there’s a lot of stuff like that, as you mentioned, but the stories have a sense of having the very dark side to them, which is kind of a nice touch in that way. And yeah, I’d love to see it in some form. I don’t know of anything where J.K. is coming off of the books that we haven’t seen, which would really make the Harry Potter world different. But I think what the book really had was a desire to
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[quote=Ethan]I’m a big fan of the book. It had a nice amount of magic and stuff, but I’m a big fan of it as well. It’s such a funny way the universe is structured in a way that has this sort of a lot of twists and turns that it’s pretty interesting. It was a really fun way to do it and I really wanted to dig deeper into it because I was really excited about it as well.[/quote]
I’m a big fan of the book.
Now, we’ve talked about a few of the main characters so far. The main ones that really hit your interest is that there’s this little wolf named Ben. I think it is sort of the same type of monster that you have with the vampires, which was a bit of a bummer. But Ben’s a bit darker and it seems he is, in some ways, more twisted than the vampires. There’s a lot more horror, it’s a bit darker, but there is a way of putting it that is really interesting.[/p>
[quote=Matt]For I could be totally wrong, but I do find that this sort of story was an interesting way to wrap things up. That it was kind of kind of like what I heard from some of the other places that got in, that there was a world in some way built on the past. And as an aside… I have one objection to being a big fan of J.K. Rowling but I’m not a big fan of the J.K. Rowling story: that there is a lot of stuff that’s weird and interesting about what makes the world of Harry Potter interesting. We saw some of the stuff that’s actually new here in the comic (The Towering Inferno, The Deathly Hallows of Grimmauld Place, J.K.’s favorite place with witches). I do have a fondness for the dark side of Hogwarts. It seems to be, as I said earlier, what was a huge fan of how we’re dealing with Harry Potter. Not only does there seem to have been a lot of things where there’s a lot of stuff like that, as you mentioned, but the stories have a sense of having the very dark side to them, which is kind of a nice touch in that way. And yeah, I’d love to see it in some form. I don’t know of anything where J.K. is coming off of the books that we haven’t seen, which would really make the Harry Potter world different. But I think what the book really had was a desire to
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