Oedipus Part I
The name of Oedipus' wife/mother.
Who is Jocasta
In 1931 this building was the tallest skyscraper in the world.
What is the Empire State Building?
Born in Argentina and wrote about his own experience of going blind.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
The author of the Country of the Blind.
Who is H. G. Wells?
Oedipus gouged out a particular body part.
What are Oedipus' eyes?
This person was Oedipus' brother-in-law.
Who is Creon?
The name of the author of "View From the Empire State Building."
Who is Helen Keller?
This poem honors Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a botanist who lost his eyesight.
Who is W.S. Merwin
The country that is the setting of the story and where these cities are located: Cotopaxi and Chimborazo.
What is Ecuador?
This person died in dispair because she married her son.
Who is Jocasta?
This person wrote the play "Oedipus the King."
Who is Sophocles?
The disabilities of the author.
What is blind and deaf?
This person was born in Cairo and wrote a poem about someone who had surgery, curing their blindness.
Who is Famima Naoot?
The name of the sighted man who lived in the Country of the Blind.
Who is Nunez?
This group of people often made comments during the play and swayed as they spoke.
Who is the chorus?
This was Oedipus' biological father's name.
Who is King Liaus?
Dr. John Finley and his relationship to Helen Keller.
Who wrote to Helen Keller prompting her to write the response "View From the Empire State Building?"
Poem title in which his wife and daughter were killed in an earthquake.
What is "The Blind Seer of Ambon."
He would have to do this in order to get married in "The Country of the Blind."
What is become blind through an operation?
In the end, this person became King of Thebes.
Who is Creon?
The blind prophet who knew that Oedipus killed his father.
Who is Teiresias?
Described as poetical, fearless idealism, mighty symmetry, mysticism, and inspiration.
What did Helen Keller see when she went up the Empire State Building?
Referred to in a poems and one short story, he lost his eyesight in 1650 and then wrote his greatest work, Paradise Lost.
Who is John Milton?
Saying that means one is learning or often makes mistakes.
What is, " I was only newly made?"
Oedipus wanted to say goodbye to someone before he went out and lived in the desert.
Who are Oedipus' daughters/children?