Characters/Places #1
The location of Apollo
What is Delphi?
The person killed at the crossroads.
Who is Lauis?
The specific tragic flaw that Oedipus possesses.
What is hubris?
An example of dramatic irony from Oedipus the King.
What is when the audience knows something that the characters do not. We know that Polybus and Merope are not his real parents. We know that Jocasta is his mother. We know that he(Oedipus) killed Lauis at the crossroads.
An example of how Oedipus tries to alter his prophecy.
What is run from Corinth?
The Voice of the People
Who is the Chorus?
The play that is probably written first. (The Theban Plays)
What is Antigone?
The definition of harmartia.
What is a fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero?
An example of situational irony from Oedipus the King.
What is when Jocasta commits suicide or Oedipus gouging out his eyes?
The definition of free will and Oedipus' last MAJOR act of free will.
What is the ability to act at one's own discretion...choices. What is gouging out his eyes?
Oedipus' adopted mother
Who is Merope?
The location that Oedipus was left to die.
What is Mt. Cithaeron?
The catastrophic end for Oedipus.
What is self-inflicted blindness?
An example of verbal irony from Oedipus the King.
What is when Oedipus states, "No, by I came by, Oedipus the ignorant..."
The meaning of Oedipus name along with the significance.
What is Swollen feet and the significance is that the scars created at birth are still impactful in his adulthood? It is also his connection to his birth and real parents.
The place where Oedipus was raised.
What is Corinth?
Who says, "A prophet? Well then, free youself of every charge!"
Who is Jocasta?
Two of Oedipus' extrordinary abilities?
What are intelligence, leadership, and pro-activeness?
Two things that Oedipus asks of Creon at the end of the play.
What is banish him, never bury his body in Thebes, and asked him to watch over Antigone and Ismene?
An example of how Jocasta tries to alter her prophecy.
What is have her baby, Oedipus, killed at birth.
Who says, "Not I, I'm not the man to yearn for kingship…"
Who is Creon?
The one lone survivor at the crossroads?
Who is the shepherd #1?
Five events in order that lead to Oedipus' catastrophic end.
What is the plague of the city----Apollo's instructions to find the murderer of Lauis----Tiresius' confrontation----shepherd/messagers testimony----realizes prophecy is true----Jocasta's death----self-inflicted blindness?
The Chorus states, "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle with his brilliance, he rose to power, a man beyond all power. Who could behold his greatness without envy." The Chorus' message from this quote.
What is Oedipus acquired power easily and quickly? His claim to fame was solving the riddle and not much else. Anytime other observe success, there is jealously. In the case, Creon.
Oedipus' connection to the riddle's answer, MAN, throughout the play.
What is going full circle throughout Oedipus' life?
4 legs - his search for his real parent/pinned ankles...scars from birth
2 legs- his prime of life during his reign as king and solving the riddle
3 legs - the end of his life, being blind and close to death using a walking stick and heading to foreign soil, exile.