Oedipus Rex PPT

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Oedipus Rex

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Oedipus (Vegetable Version)
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Sophocles
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Brief on Sophocles
A 497BC405BC
B Aeschylus and Euripides
C 123plays whole life
D 80 percent wining rate
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Influence

• Add the third Characters in dramas
• Reduce the the importance of the chorus in the
  presentation of the plot

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Oedipus Trilogy

• Written by Sophocles
• Oedipus Rex (The King) / Oedipus at Colonus /
  Antigone
• Deals with destiny and faith / A greater force /
  Irony
• Complete in itself

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Oedipus Rex

• Remove the plague
• Find out the killer of the previous king, Laius
• Teiresias Oedipus is the killer
• Jocasta hanged herself / Oedipus blinded himself

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Oedipus at Colonus

• Colonus (sacred to the Furies)
• Eteocles vs. Polyneices / Depend on where Oedipus
  is buried
• Ismene Creons plan to bury Oedipus at the
  border of the Thebes
• Kindness of Theseus
• Creons threat / Theseus help
• Polyneices anger
• Oedipus death / Seven Against Thebes

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Antigone

• Polyneices Eteocles both killed
• Ereocles honored / Polyneices disgraced
• Antigones deed
• Haemons (Creons son and Antigones fiance)
  pledge
• Creon vs. Teiresias
• Eurydice Haemon Antigone dead

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Characters
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Oedipus

• The protagonist
• Kind of Thebes
• Name translates as swollen footWound in his
  ankles since birth
• Intelligent, solve the Sphinx riddle
• Stubborn, disbelieve the Gods
• Prideful

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Jocasta

• Queen of Thebes
• Wife and mother of Oedipus
• Calm and loving

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Teiresias

• Blind prophet of Thebes
• Told Oedipus the truth of his parentage
• Mouthpiece for the Gods

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Creon

• Oedipus brother in law, Jocastas brother
• Devout follower of the oracle of Apollo
• Loyal friend to Oedipus
• Bossy, bureaucratic, intent on asserting his own
  authority.
• Take over Thebes after Oedipus exile

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Messenger from Corinth

• Beginning of the play, came to tell Oedipus news
  about his father, Polybus death.
• Provides first real clue to the audience.

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Shepherd

• The one who gave the baby to Laius and Jocasta
• Witnessed Laius death
• Came back to Thebes, saw the killer became king,
  ask leave to flee.
• Reveals the truth, adding the last piece to the
  puzzle that will solve the kingdoms plague.

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Chorus of Theban Elders

• Theban Citizens, usually the elder groups
• Serve as emotional sounding board
• Reflecting on the plot development
• Chorus speaks as one person

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Summary
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Preliminary Background

• A procession of priests who come before the
  sacred altar outside the palace to lament over
  the plague that has fallen to the city of Thebes.
• King Oedipus, aware that a terrible curse has
  struck Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon,
  to seek the advice of Apollo.

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First Oracle

• Laius, ruler of Thebes is told in an oracle that
  his son will kill him.

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Second Oracle

• The oracle of Apollo gives Oedipus a horrific
  prediction he will kill his father and sleep
  with his mother.

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Third Oracle

• The third oracle from Apollo is that the plague
  is caused by an unpunished murder who killed the
  former ruler, Laius.

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Rising Action

• A literal building of interest through
  suspense, emotional reaction, deepening mystery,
  and so on. It is the time for plottings and
  counterplottings, intrigues and conspiracies,
  accumulation of incidents and development of
  character. Revelations from the past, forbodings
  and foreshadowings of the future begin carrying
  the conflict toward the plays high point, its
  climax.

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The Rising Action in Oedipus Rex

• The rising action is the part of the
  drama that begins where the introduction ends and
  leads to the climax or turning point. The rising
  action in Oedipus Rex begins with Creons first
  appearance in the play. It leads to Theban Queen
  Jocastas recounting of how she understood her
  husband, Theban King Laius, died. And ultimately
  that recounting leads to the revelation of the
  murderous, incestuous base upon which Theban
  royal family life is based.

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The Brief Plot of Rising Action

• It starts with Oedipus promising that the
  person responsible for Laios death will be driven
  out of Thebes. Oedipus sends for Teiresias, the
  blind seer who serves Apollo. Teiresias does not
  want to tell Oedipus about the murder, but tells
  Oedipus to leave things as they are. Oedipus
  accuses Teiresias of being the murderer and that
  is why he wont reveal the truth. Teiresais then
  tells that Oedipus is the one that killed Laios.
  Oedipus is shocked and angered by this accusation.

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Teiresias words

• The man you have been looking for all this time,
• The damned man, the murderer of Laios,
• That man is in Thebes. To your mind he is
  foreign-born
• But it will soon be shown that he is a Theban,
• A revelation that will fail to please.
• A blind man,
• Who has his eyes now a penniless man, who is
  rich now
• And he will go tapping the strange earth with his
  staff.
• To the children with whom he lives now he will be
• Brother and father---the very same to her
• Who bore him, son and husband---the very same
• Who came to his fathers bed, wet with his
  fathers blood.

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The Riddle in Oedipus Rex

• What goes on four legs in the morning, on two
  legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
• A Human

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Sphinx

• The Sphinx was a creature with the torso of a
  woman and the body of a lion, which is said to
  have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of
  Thebes, and to have asked a riddle of travelers
  to allow them passage. When the riddle was
  solved, the Sphinx threw herself down the high
  rock and died. An alternate version tells that
  she devoured herself.

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WHO knows OEDIPUS' BIRTH
A. MASSAGER
B. SHEPHERD
C. IOKASTE
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WHAT MASSAGER SAYS
1. King Polybos' DEATH
2. Oedipus NOT Polybos' son
3. another SHEPHERD
gave a child to massager
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HOW SHEPHERD RESPONDS
1. WOULDN'T tell anything
2. forced to speak the TRUTH
a. Kid is LAIOS'
b. from IOKASTE
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HOW STORY ENDS
PUNISHMENT
1. Oedipus BLINDS himself
2. SELF-EXILE
3. Would rather SUFFER, alive
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HOW OEDIPUS FEELS
RELIEVED
EAGER PROUD
OUTRAGEOUS
SUFFERED