Oedipus - Characters
Oedipus' title.
What is king?
The location of the staging of Oedipus' blinding/Jocasta's suicide.
Where is offstage?
The definition of hamartia.
What is "tragic flaw," some error or frailty that causes the hero's downfall.
What is "indignant"?
Oedipus' adoptive parents.
Who are Polybus/Merope?
Oedipus' punishment for his crimes.
What is banishment?
The term for the purging of emotions (pity and fear) experienced by the audience at the end of a tragedy.
What is catharsis?
This adjective describes one with an unbiased view, who is able to leave personal judgments aside.
What is "objective"?
Oedipus' actual parents.
Who are Laius/Jocasta?
Oedipus' ironic response to his crimes.
What is blinding himself?
The five basic elements of a tragedy.
What are a tragic hero with a tragic flaw, recognition, reversal, and catharsis?
This adjective describes a sarcastic, stinging, or biting remark.
What is caustic?
This character becomes king after Oedipus.
Who is Creon?
The chorus's end.
What is the plague is lifted?
This person(s) experience restoration at the end of a tragedy.
Who is the community?
This verb refers to the act of receiving or obtaining from some source or origin.
What is derive?
Jocasta's end.
What is suicide?
This character is the sacrifice for the city at the end of the tragedy.
Who is Oedipus?
The three unities.
What are time, place, and action?
This noun refers to the systematic rational investigation of knowledge, reality, or values; or to a set of beliefs.
What is philosophy?