Oedipus Rex

Part II
1. Type two passages (p. # and line) that think you best describe Oedipus and list in your journal or notebook.

962 #61-Poor children! You may be sure I know all that you longed for in your coming here. I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.

961 #9- I, Oedipus who bear the famous name.


2. Write a description of the external conflict which is evoking pathos for Oedipus.
Oedipus and the people in the chamber are trying to find decipher a message from the oracle to save the city.

3. What effect does imagery have on the audience?
Imagery in this story helps show the dire strife to help the save the city from the plague.

4. find and list any motifs that are present.
Fate, arrogance, prophecies, God,

5. What is the Chorus (Strophe and the Antistrophe) talking about?
Strophe is singing about a prayer to save the city from doom, while the Antistrophe was wishing for a quick and sudden doom to end the suffering.


Part 3

1. Find two passages that explain Tiresias' role in the story and two passages that help to establish his internal conflict.

Page 968 line 68- A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo, as we all know, this is the skill Tiresias.
page 969 line 112- You are all ignorant. NO; i will never tell you what I know. Now it is my misery; then, it would be yours.

2. Discuss the external conflict.

The external conflict in this scene is to find the murderer to be avenged and save the city from torment.

3.Find at least two examples of Oedipus' hubris.
Page 970 Line 163- Wealth, power, craft or statesmanship! Knightly position admired.
Page 974 Line - You think you could accomplish all of this?


4. Find at least two examples of Oedipus
Page 971 Line 195- Listen to you you mock my blindness , do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes are blind.
Page 972 Line 233- The damned man, the murderer of Laios, that man is in Thebes.

Page 974 Line 23- You Murderer!


5. Find Examples of paradox.
Page 974 Line 30- Thrones can be won or bought: you could do neither.


6. What is the chorus talking about ?
Strophe is talking about having sympathy for Oedipus, while the Antistrophe is telling us how it might have been for the best that he is gone.