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Oedipus Rex: The Recovery of Oedipus

Employs scenes from the play's conclusion to show that while seemingly Oedipus' search for truth and his high personal qualities have led to destruction, he is redeemed by the realization that his fault was not guilt but ignorance of the prophecy's inevitable fulfillment. Concludes by indicating that Oedipus learned that he, and all men, are neither gods who control destiny, nor beasts doomed to live unthinkingly, but lie somewhere in between. Oedipus is identified as one of the first of Western literature's great searchers for man's place in the universe., Considers how the Greek tragedy shows man as somewhere between God and beast, always looking for his rightful place.
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Employs scenes from the play's conclusion to show that while seemingly Oedipus' search for truth and his high personal qualities have led to destruction, he is redeemed by the realization that his fault was not guilt but ignorance of the prophecy's inevitable fulfillment. Concludes by indicating that Oedipus learned that he, and all men, are neither gods who control destiny, nor beasts doomed to live unthinkingly, but lie somewhere in between. Oedipus is identified as one of the first of Western literature's great searchers for man's place in the universe., Considers how the Greek tragedy shows man as somewhere between God and beast, always looking for his rightful place.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  1. Hamlet: The Readiness Is All
  2. Huckleberry Finn: What Does Huckleberry Finn Say?,
  3. Oedipus Rex: The Character Of Oedipus
  4. "Our Town" and Our Universe 1959
  5. Hamlet: What Happens in Hamlet 1959
  6. Oedipus Rex: Age of Sophocles 1959
  7. Oedipus Rex: Man and God 1959
  8. Oedipus Rex: The Recovery of Oedipus 1959
  9. Our Town and Ourselves 1959
  10. The Theatre: One of the Humanities 1959
  11. Aristotle's Ethics -- Book I: The theory of happiness. 1962
  12. Art: What Is It? Why Is It? 1962
  13. Plato's apology : the life and teachings of Socrates 1962
  14. The Novel: Early Victorian England and Charles Dickens 1962
  15. The Novel: What It Is, What It's About, What It Does 1962
  16. Emperor and Slave--The Philosophy of Roman Stoicism 1964
  17. Macbeth, Part 1: Politics of Power 1964
  18. Macbeth, Part 2: The Themes of Macbeth 1964
  19. Macbeth, Part 3: The Secret'st Man 1964
  20. Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn and the American Experience 1965
  21. Huckleberry Finn: The Art of Huckleberry Finn 1965
  22. The Odyssey, Part 1: Structure of the Epic 1965
  23. The Odyssey, Part 3: The Central Themes 1965
  24. The Louvre: A Golden Prison 1966
  25. A doll's house by Henrik Ibsen : part 2, Ibsen's themes 1967

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record

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