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OEDIPUS (characters (Oedipus (When he gets to Thebes he becomes king of…
OEDIPUS
characters
Oedipus
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son of the king and queen of Thebes but Is given away and grows up with king Polybus and queen Merope
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He is motivated to get to the bottom of things; he wants to find out wh killed king Laius, who his parents are and
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Creon
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tries to help Oedipus figure our how to end the plague but is accused by Oedipus of conspiring against him
literary device
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Dramatic Irony
"Do you know from whom you are? Yea, you are ignorant that to your own you are an enemy, whether on earth, alive or under it"(p.14)
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Foreshadowing
Creon knows that Oedipus killed his own father, the King , but yes not say this in one way and so every time he foreshadows a bit of information
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greek tragedy
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Aristotle's tragedy
"the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude, complete in itself." He continues, "Tragedy is a form of drama exciting the emotions of pity and fear.
Originally written in Greek, around 442 BC
By Sophocles, one of the great tragedians
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Also called Oedipus Rex (Latin), or Oedipus the King
Tyrannus: means (probably, to the Greek mind of the time) a man who wielded absolute power, a power not necessarily sancitoned by the state
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plot
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His intention was to escape his fate by staying away from his parents so he wouldn't kill his father or marry his mother
By doing this he actually unknowingly killed his father and married his mother (a sphinx said that this would happen)
Oedipus’ story, beginning with a crisis in Thebes. Oedipus, in an attempt to dispel the crisis, finds out the truth about his birth, leading to Jocasta’s suicide and his blinding of himself.
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