Symbols
This symbol is a visible mark on Oedipus, symbolizing the way fate has marked him for his miserable future.
What is Oedipus's swollen feet/ankles?
This is when the work takes place in only one place or city
What is the Unity of Place?
The place Oedipus the King takes place.
What is Thebes?
The protagonist of the play
Who is Oedipus?
When the audience knows something the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
This symbol is present in Teiresias and Oedipus at the end. It represents a lack of knowledge, pride, and ignorance.
What is Blindness?
This is when a story occurs within twenty-four hours without flashbacks
What is the Unity of Time?
The things Oedipus uses to blind himself.
What are Jocasta's brooches?
The wife of Oedipus
Who is Jocasta?
Excessive pride.
What is hubris?
These characters symbolize Oedipus's sins and shame, so much so that he cannot bear to look at them at the end of the play.
What are Oedipus's Children?
This is when there is only one continuous problem/plot and all actions and characters work to solve it without the distractions of any subplots
What is the Unity of Plot/Action?
The event Messenger 1 comes to tell Oedipus about.
What is Polybus's death?
Oedipus's brother-in-law
Who is Creon?
Oedipus yelling and accusing Teiresias and Creon on conspiring against him.
What is an example of Hubris?
This symbol represents a place where a choice has to be made. Oedipus made a poor choice at this place, which led him to his current predicament.
What is the Crossroads?
An episode of The Office that takes place over the course of a week.
What is an example of breaking the Unity of Time?
The Oracle's command to rid Thebes of their current plagues.
What is the banishment/death of Laius's killer?
Oedipus's real father.
Oedipus being relieved at the death of Polybus, even though we know his real father was Laius.
What is an example of Dramatic Irony?
This symbol represents knowledge and wisdom. Oedipus has this literally, but lacks it figuratively. He loses this at the end of the play. Teiresias has it figuratively, but not literally.
What is sight?
A movie like "The Holiday," which takes place in LA and Great Britain with multiple plots.
What is breaking the Unity of Plot/Action or breaking the Unity of Place?
How Oedipus saved Thebes the first time.
What is solving the Sphinx's riddle?
Oedipus's adoptive mother
Who is Merope?
Something concrete in a story than represents something else.
What is symbolism?