Greek Drama

Undoubtedly, the greatest irony in the drama of Oedipus Rex is the fact that King Oedipus, who has rescued Thebes by solving the riddle of the Sphinx, seeks to rid the people of suffering again by advising them to seek out the murderer of King Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus, while he unknowingly is the very cause of this suffering.

Undoubtedly, the greatest irony in the drama of Oedipus Rex is the fact that King Oedipus, who has rescued Thebes by solving the riddle of the Sphinx, seeks to rid the people of suffering again by advising them to seek out the murderer of King Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus, while he unknowingly is the very cause of this suffering.

Undoubtedly, the greatest irony in the drama of Oedipus Rex is the fact that King Oedipus, who has rescued Thebes by solving the riddle of the Sphinx, seeks to rid the people of suffering again by advising them to seek out the murderer of King Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus, while he unknowingly is the very cause of this suffering.

Soliloquy of Hamlet To be or not to be is one of the famous phrases from the opening of Hamlet’s soliloquy in the nunnery scene in Williams Shakespeare’s popular play, Hamlet. In the context of this tragic play, act III scene I, To be means to live and not to be means to die.

All these willful assertions of Dr. Faustus reveal the Renaissance spirit in which he has unbridled aspiration of worldliness and this very spirit shapes him discarding God and all the religious and moral principles. For this, Faustus sells his soul and buys eternal damnation which is absolutely an ugly bargaining from his side.

The plot construction of the play is essentially based on the classical norms of the unity of time, place and action. The unity of time means that the play must not cover a course of time not more than a single day: in Oedipus Rex also the whole plot of the play unfolds in the course of just a single day.

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Erinyes.

The chorus in this play, who chant the song or ode, represent the elders of the city of Thebes. These choral odes and dances serve to separate one scene from another as there was no curtain in the Greek theatre. They also comment on the action.

Fill in the Blanks and important lines of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles,Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe,and importance of being earnest.

In the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet is the tragic hero. Prince Hamlet can even be considered a quintessential tragic hero due to how closely he relates to Aristotle’s definition. Initially he has noble motives which were to avenge his father’s death but by the end, his flaws and bad decisions lead him to his death.