Oedipus Rex Figurative Quotation Language Identification Greek Tragedy

Oedipus Rex!

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• Your own eyes must tell you: Thebes is tossed on a murdering sea and cannot lift her head from the death surge. A rust consumes the buds of the earth…Death alone battens upon the misery of Thebes.

• Metaphor

• I who saw your days call no man blest—your great days like ghosts gone.

• simile

Question 1 - 30 Creon: That above all I must dispute with you Oedipus: That above all I will not hear you deny.

• Repetition

• Poor children! You may be sure I know all that you longed in your coming here. I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, no one is as sick as I.

• Verbal Irony

• The Delphic stone of prophecies remembers ancient regicide and a still bloody hand.

• Personification

• Why should anyone in this world be afraid, since fate rules us and nothing can be foreseen? A man should live only for the present day.

• Jocasta

• No man can judge that rough unknown or trust in second sight, for wisdom changes hands among the wise.

• Chorus

• Listen to me; you mock my blindness do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind. You cannot see the wretchedness of your life.

• Teiresias

• I say I take the son’s part, just as though I were his son, to press the fight for him and see it won!

• Oedipus

• Think of this first: would any sane man prefer power, with all the king’s anxieties, to the same power of grace and sleep?

• Creon

• O Lord Apollo! May your news be as fair as your face radiant.

• Invocation

• The tyrant … who drinks from his great sickening cup recklessness and vanity, until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope

• Peripeteia

• Oedipus—the simple man who knows nothing—I thought it out myself, no birds to help me!

• Hubris

• All the prophecies!—Now, O Light, may I look on you for the last time, I Oedipus, Oedipus damned in his birth, damned in his marriage!

• Anagnorisis

Jocasta: Set your mind at rest, if it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you that you will find no man whose craft gives knowledge of the unknowable. Here is my proof… Oedipus: Just now while you were speaking: it chilled my heart.

• irony

• The structure where the play takes place is _____?

• ampitheater

• Name two functions of the Chorus

• • Sing and dance Retell a scene Give advice Act as the voice of the audience.

• Name two functions of an actor’s mask.

• Show emotion • Differentiate between characters • Increase visibility

• According to Greek legend, who was the god of theater?

• Dionysus

• What type of structures were plays performed near/beside?

• Hospitals or healing centers

• Outline the state of Thebes at the beginning of the play. Cite two specific examples.

• Affected by plague: death, sickness, famine.

• Outline the parts of Oedipus’ proclamation to Thebes.

• • Murderer will be exiled Accomplices will be ostracized May not protect this person Oedipus himself is not exempt

• What type of diction does Sophocles use to discuss the concept of truth in the play? Hint: think about Teiresias.

• Sight and blindess

• What does Oedipus ask of Creon in the end of the play?

• Bury Jocasta • Exhile him • Protect his daughters

• What is the main moral of the play as stated by the Chorus at the end of the Exodos?

• Don’t take your good fortune for granted, every man is weak.