Module 3

ESSAY TOPICS (Select One )

1. Tiresias ‘Your great good fortune, true, it was your ruin.’

               Sophocles, in Oedipus the King, proposes that even power and greatness cannot challenge destiny.

               Do you agree?

2. Tiresias: ‘You with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life’

In Oedipus the King, Sophocles suggests that the ability to see the truth depends on a willingness to accept it.

Do you agree?

3. Sophocles, in Oedipus the King, is intent on showing that those who defy the will of the gods are doomed. Discuss.