Characters
Background Information
Dramatic Irony
Prolouge
Scene 1
100
King of Thebes
Who is Oedipus
100
The place where infant Oedipus was taken to die.
What is Mount Corinth?
100
What the auidence knows that the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
100
Oedipus sent him to Delphi to learn how to save Thebes.
Who is Creon?
100
The person that is accused of being behind a plot against Oedipus.
Who is Creon?
200
Oedipus Brother in Law
Who is Creon
200
Sphinx
What was terriorizing the city of Thebes?
200
Viewers and readers know that they are the father and mother of Oedipus.
Who is Queen Jocasta and King Lauis?
200
The people of Thebes were pre-occupied with the Sphinx Terrorizing the town.
What is the reason no one attempted to find the truth about what happened to Lauis?
200
The phophet reveals this person as the murder of King Lauis.
Who is Oedipus?
300
Polybus and Merope
Who are the King and Queen of Corinth?
300
Where Oedipus and King Lauis met
What is the crossroads?
300
Oedipus will marry his mother and Kill his father.
What the auidence knows about oedipus phophecy?
300
The plauge
What is the disease that is destroying the city of Thebes?
300
This person will be banished from the city
What will happen to the person who is found the killer of King Lauis?
400
The King and Queen of Corinth
Who is Polybus and Merope?
400
123 and 7 remain
What is the number is plays Sophecles wrote and how many remain?
400
That Polybus is not Oedipus biological father.
When Oedipus thinks the prophecy is over when Polybus dies, what does the audience know?
400
Creon wants to talk to Oedipus alone to protect his privacy.
What is the suggestions that Creon makes when Oedipus asks about the message from God Apollo?
400
the Chorus suggested this person to be able to find the whereabouts of the Murder.
Who is Teriesies?
500
The blind phophet who told Oedipus his fate
Who is Tereisias?
500
A drunken man (friend); The Oracle
Who tells Oedipus about his idenity and who does Oedipus converse with to seek the truth with about his past?
500
The person gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope to raise instead of getting rid of Oedipus.
What did the shephard do?
500
Find the cause of the Plauge.
What the people of Thebes want Oedipus to do for them?
500
Children is what Oedipus calls them.
What Oedipus call the people of thebes?