Oedipus Rex - Greek Drama Themes - Mythology

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA THEMES

MYTHOLOGY AND THE GOD...

Early Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy, drew from the stories of mythology and legend. These myths illuminated universal problems, ones that could pertain to situations plaguing fifth century Greece as well as to past events. The ancient Greeks believed that tragedy should deal with illustrious figures and significant events, thus the pantheon on God is ever-present and, often, omniscient. Aeschylus ‘plays, for instance, often centred on the justification of the God ways in relation to humankind or the comprehension of the form of justice meted out by the God.

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Oedipus Re x- Greek Drama Themes - Strug & Rebell

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA THEMES

STRUGGLE AND REBELLION...

Greek tragedies all depicted struggles of some sort, most commonly between the state and individuals, between human law and natural law, or between human efforts and preordained fate. In many Greek tragedies, it is the person who rebels against the established order of things who becomes the hero or heroine. Sophocles’ Antigone depicts some of these struggles. Antigone defies her uncle Creon, the king of Thebes, when she performs burial rites for her brother.

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Oedipus Rex - Greek Drama Themes - Tragedy

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA – THEMES

TRAGEDY...

The first forms of Greek drama were tragedies. “The theme of all tragedy is the sadness of life and the universality of evil,” wrote noted scholar Paul Roche in The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus. “The inference the Greeks drew from this was not that life was not worth living, but that because it was worth living the obstacles to it were worth overcoming.” Through suffering, the tragic hero is able to learn and grow. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were the great Greek tragedians, and they brought distinctive themes and perspectives to their works. Aeschylus transformed tragic drama into great literature.

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Walking on the moon - Moon walker - part one

WALKING ON THE MOON – DAVID R. SCOTT – PART ONE

Sixty feet above the moon, the blast of our single rocket churns up a gray tumult of lunar dust that seems to engulf us. Blinded, I feel the rest of the way down “on the gauges”. With an abrupt jar, our lunar module, or LM, strikes the surface and shudders to rest. We have hit our target squarely a large amphitheater girded by mountains and a deep canyon, at the eastern edge of a vast plain.

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The precious things in the darkness of night - SMUGGLING - part one

SMUGGLING - PART ONE

• Smuggling means the illegal and secret transportation of goods or people into or out of a country.
• Smugglers have become influential in our society.
• Customs official are unable to check their activities.
• If they are arrested somehow, they use the power of money to rescue themselves.
• They are mercilessly spoiling the youth by drugs smuggling and destroying the economy of our country.
• Officials and individuals should play an honest part to save the country from this evil.

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What is "Pollution" - & - What is Golden Age

                              WHAT IS "POLLUTION" -&- WHAT IS GOLDEN AGE

Science has made Man the master of this earth and all its resources. He shapes the earth as he wishes. He has built grand buildings and big factories which produce enormous quantities of goods and machines. Some people say that this is the golden age.

But it is a pity that it is not. There is something very wrong with this golden age. In his craze to gain victory over was not using them but destroying them. He was making the earth barren.

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about Human mystery or illusion - part two

illusion or magic real?

about Human mystery or illusions 

As an example, he writes about the his own experience of Carl Tidy, he is a graphic designer in 2005. He was asked to design a poster for some churches. With this thought in his own mind, he walked out for a breath of fresh air. As he looked up at the sky, he saw a formation of the clouds in the form of Jesus on the Cross. Did Carl’s mind unknowingly hook up with the mind of the living planet to unintentionally form the cloud?
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about Human mystery or illusion - part one

illusion or magic real?

about Human mystery or illusions 

We all have our own way of looking or perceiving things. But the human mind loves too much mystery. An enigma that cannot be explained much easily. Something must be confuses us & makes us wonder how or what makes such & such a thing work. And if the answer is not acceptable in its obvious state, than we want to try delve much deeper.

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Analysis of a crisis - fairyage

ANALYSIS OF A CRISIS

Ever since its inception PAKISTAN has been passing through one crisis after another. Those who are witnessing and experiencing these political and social upheavals believe that we have reached the apex of despair, however, history shows that there is no end to the decline. It is like a black hole which has no bottom.

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