Creative Writing: Oedipus The King

“Yes that’s the one. He’s known us since we were tadpoles and he tells us about his adventures in the river.”

Isaac’s body heated from the embarrassment. “I kind of forgot to. What were you trying to tell me?”

People are shaped by the times in which they live and the events they experience. No one can blame, for instance, that friend who is wary of relationships after a bad breakup, or that uncle who won't eat fish after it made him sick that one time. What is true for most people is also true for monarchs. Indeed, the events in 19th century Europe and his early life largely shaped the reign of Czar __Nikolai I__, who had to quash a rebellion immediately upon taking the Russian throne.

A humorless grin strained at Booker's lips, but his expression remained frosty. “You... were... what?” he asked, biting down on each word as though he were ripping the sentence apart with his bare teeth. “Consoling me? Making fun of me? Or are you trying to tell me in some clumsy way that you want me to bend you over the back of the couch and fuck you like a bitch? Is that it? Huh?”

King's abhorrence of violence and adversarial situations almost reached pathological proportions. When his brother A.D.

“Have you been able to get in contact with him?” Bender asked, but I just shook my head.

The next day I walk out my door to find two people stationed outside my door. He knew I would try to go again. My two new guards follow me as I go down to the dining hall for breakfast. Father is already in there eating his breakfast.

     Throught Oedipus Rex, Oedipus displays his heroism many times. From the Prologue of the play to the moment in which he leaves Thebes, Oedipus' heroics are extremely apparent; however, at the same time, the decisions which make Oedipus a hero ultimately become the decisions which bring him to shame and exile.

My mother pulled me aside. “Emily you need to calm your siblings down if we cause

“A name is better than nothing.” She said. “I’ll be able to find him with that

Sophocles ' play “Oedipus Tyrannus” is an enigma. His play includes incest, murder and self-enlightenment all leading into the main theme of fate. Athenians believed that fate is not left up to man, but that is provided solely on the whims of the gods. Because of his dramatic approach to his plays Sophocles was considered one of the most brilliant and creative writers of his time.

Recognizing her inability to "stop for Death" because of life's frantic pace, Dickinson implies that though she may yearn for his touch, Death routinely escapes her. Starstruck, she disregards Death's inevitability in favor of remarking that "he kindly stopped for [her]," as if he had chosen her especially. She takes up the role of a damsel in distress and suggests that Death had finally rescued her from the frenzied torment. The poet continues to describe her relationship with Death so that the audience associates it with an infatuated girl and oblivious crush, proclaiming proudly that she and Death had been left alone with nothing but time.

I always knew what I wanted in life. I liked to plan out my future as much as I could from what I was going to wear the next day to planning my university degrees to planning my wedding. I am futuristic, its one of my strengths. Planning my future is fun for me. I can tell you what university I would like to attend, what my major and minor will be in university, the city I want to live in, the dogs I would like to get when I move out, all the details of my pre-planned wedding, and what my children’s names would be.

Throughout this essay, I am going to explore how architecture and design can be a mechanism which is able to influence the public and have a control over society. On a daily basis, society is continuously being subconsciously impacted and some may say controlled by factors of architecture and design such as propaganda buildings, public spaces, objects, graphics, films and advertisement. I am going to investigate into how each of these aspects may have subliminal messages within them and what effect this may have on individuals and the general public. It is also important to recognise why certain people react to certain manners of architecture and design and how this may have changed over the years. Human behaviour in society is undoubtedly influenced by the creation and construction of the environments they live, work and socialise in. People, subconsciously, tend to live their lives precisely linked to the way the environments they are living within are designed. Factors, like objects and graphics - such as billboard advertisements, in these environments also have an effect on society and how people behave. Architecture and design have the power to encourage people to communicate with one another, they have the power inspire people to explore different aspects of their cities and/or countries. They can encourage someone to become more active, through clever thought and form. Architecture and design have the ability to influence the behaviour of people in prisons, hospitals,

"Oedipus the King" is a tragic play showing a shift from the belief of fate to freedom of choice. Therefore, Oedipus the king is a great example of those who run from fate ends up fulfilling their fate