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Characters
Sight & Blindness
Crime & Punishment
Quotes
Vocabulary
100
My Mother, My Wife, My Mother, My Wife!
Who is Jocasta?
100
Blind seer who "sees" the truth
Who is Teiresias?
100
Killed by his own son
Who is Laius?
100
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! I knew this well, but made myself forget...To the children with whom he lives now he will be brother and father--to her who bore him, son and husband, the very same..."
Who is Teiresias?
100
Hubris
What is Great Pride
200
Brother-in-law and Uncle
Who is Creon?
200
A sighted man who cannot "see" the truth
Oedipus
200
Punishment threatened by Oedipus for the killers of Laius
What is death and harsh punishment or death for the family of the killer?
200
"Whoever killed King Laius might--who knows?--Decide at any moment to kill me as well. By avenging the murdered king I protect myself."
Who is Oedipus?
200
Catharsis
What is release of different kinds of emotions
300
Polybus & Merope
Who are Oedipus' adopted parents?
300
Who people go to and ask questions of when they seek the truth
What is the Oracle at Delphi?
300
Sent own son to the mountains to die to avoid the prophecy coming true
Who are Jocasta and Laius?
300
"You are fatally wrong! May you never learn the truth of who you are!"
Who is Jocasta?
300
Dramatic Irony
What is a situation where the audience knows more than the characters?
400
Angry old man killed at a crossroads from Thebes
Who is Laius?
400
What Oedipus does when he finally can see the truth
What is he blinds himself (with Jocasta's brooches)?
400
How Oedipus punishes himself when he finds out that he killed his father and married his mother
What is he takes Jocasta's brooches and stabs out his eyes with them?
400
"Think of this first: Would any sane man prefer power, with all a king's anxieties, to that same power and the grace of sleep? Certainly not I. I have never longed for the king's power--only his rights."
Who is Creon?
400
Hamartia
What is the tragic flaw of the protagonist
500
His own children's brother
Who is Oedipus?
500
What Jocaste does when she realizes that the truth will be seen by her son/husband and everyone in Thebes
What is she hangs herself?
500
2 Reasons why Oedipus blinds himself
What is he cannot be physically sighted and see the truth; he doesn't want to face his parents in the afterlife because he is sure that he will be killed for what he has done
500
"Polybus was not your father, no more your father than the man speaking to you."
Messenger
500
Tragedy
What is drama where the main character falls to ruin because of a flaw