In despair over murdering his father & marrying his mother, he blinds himself & goes into exile
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Oedipus the King - Sophocles - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature  Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par ... Shortly after Oedipus' birth, his father, King Laius of Thebes, learned from an ... which foretold that he would marry his own mother and kill his own father. ... in the murder, Tiresias is provoked into telling the king the truth, that he himself is the...
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Oedipus | Define Oedipus at Dictionary.com  ... and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile. ... The Delphic oracle told Oedipus that to end the plague, he must find and punish the murderer of King Laius. ... In his despair at this discovery, Oedipus blinded himself.
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Oedipus the King - Wikipedia  Oedipus the King also known by its Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by ... This murder cast a doom over Laius, his son Oedipus, and all of his other .... a prophecy that he would one day murder his father and sleep with his mother. ... of Thebes after the revelation and neither blinds himself, nor is sent into exile.
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SparkNotes: The Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, lines 13111684  The Chorus enters and cries that even Oedipus, greatest of men, was brought low by destiny, for he unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother.
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Oedipus the King Summary - Shmoop  Aware that a terrible curse has befallen Thebes, he sends his brother-in-law, ... will be lifted if the murderer of Laiusthe former kingis found and prosecuted. ... Teiresias, the blind prophet, informs Oedipus that Oedipus himself killed Laius. ... Jocasta realizes that she is Oedipus's mother and that Laius was his father.
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Who killed Lorca? Film reveals family feud may have led to ...  Aug 18, 2006 ... Film reveals family feud may have led to execution of Spanish poet ... after his uprising in July 1936, Garcia Lorca travelled from Madrid to be with his ... for the Death of a Bullfighter and three Andalusian plays, Blood Wedding,...
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Synopsis: King Lear  Utah Shakespeare Festival  Regan refuses to take in her father until he has made apology to her sister. ... of her love for Edmund, Goneril poisons Regan and then stabs herself when her...
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17. The Darkest Days of David's Life (2 Samuel 16:20 -- 19:8) | Bible ...  Jun 1, 2004 ... He, not unlike his father David, can stay home from the battle and ..... Joab is incensed that this young man has not killed Absalom on the spot. ..... He should have died for his rebellion against his father (prior to this text).
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Eric the Red-haired - Revolvy  Exiles Erik the Red's father was banished from Norway for the crime of ... Erik to exile for three years due to "some killings" he committed around the year 982. ... ship and took this as a bad sign, leaving his son to continue without his company. .... 981 By place Europe The Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway...
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ENGLISH LITERATURE  May 18, 2009 ... His mother died when he was eleven years old, and, on his father's ... In 1749 his second novel, The History of Tom Jones, was published, and, two years ... The gout that had left him a virtual cripple led him to seek relief in the ... He wants her to marry Blifil and so unite the Allworthy and Western estates.
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Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": James Baldwin Revisited ...  Jun 5, 2007 ... The protagonist John Grimes is trapped in a repressive religious ... subject to death or alteration, nor yet a hope subject to destruction; it was his identity, ... Roy has nailed the black woman's slave mentality, but he might as well ... Florence's brother Gabriel was not a holy man in his youth; he was a wild one.
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed ...  Editorial Reviews. Review ... brings you deep inside the world of majesty and intrigue at the ... The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of .... Felix describes the murder and his subsequent exile, which saved him from .... The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That...
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"Taxi" Louie's Mom Remarries (TV Episode 1981) - IMDb  Comedy ... Tony Danza. Louie is appalled and devastated when his elderly mother announces her plans to marry a Japanese man she met at her senior citizens' group.
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Paradise Lost, Book I  ... up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid,...
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Oedipus was famous for his tragic life. He accidentally killed his ...  He accidentally killed his father, married his mother and finally gouged his eyes out. | See more about ... Explore Sphinx Artwork, Riddle Correctly, and more!
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Aaron Burr Speaks | The forgotten founder, in his own words.  Not one to defend himself publicly, he remains much maligned and little understood. Our agenda: ... He wrote of his situation to his son-in-law Joseph Alston: In New York I am to be disenfranchised, and in New Jersey hanged. You will...
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J! Archive - Show #4153, aired 2002-09-25  Dweezil & Moon Unit's dad, he "left for his final tour" December 4, 1993 ... In despair over murdering his father & marrying his mother, he blinds...
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The sins of the father by Roger Kimball - The New Criterion  A review of Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever. ... and already here was his daughter performing a journalistic autopsy on his life. The objection that other biographies and memoirs are in preparation does nothing to ... social and financial obligations I will have as his son's bride and my father assures him that I am up to it.
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honor killings - Atlas Shrugs - Typepad  Amina and Sarah, the Said sisters - raped and murdered by their Muslim father - still at large. .... Got that? He can kill for his religious and political (sharia) beliefs, but we ..... agony aunt could have been bludgeoned to death by a listener angered by ..... He fell in love with a girl and married her. ...... The Dynamic Duo is Here!
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Chapter I. Part IV. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. 1917. Crime and Punishment ...  It's simply that whether you are right or wrong, we dislike you. ... At one time Raskolnikov thought of getting up and walking out and so .... But I did get into prison for debt, through a low Greek who came from Nezhin. .... to the sick, but that only proves that they are unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist.
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Absalom in Cry, the Beloved Country - Shmoop  Of course, Kumalo is horrified to find that his son started robbing people, that he ... (The "young white man" is the person who runs Absalom's old reform school; the ... his father leaves him at the prison for the last time in Book 2 of the novel. ... real-life Alan Paton's logic best, in the manuscript that his father finds sitting on his...