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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:50 am
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kfjwehoiur3y4985y34b5kjb.
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Ooooh excerpt from my Oedipus essay!
Quote: In his play, Oedipus the King, Sophocles presents the idea that “man is but a limited and contingent creature, subject to sudden disrupting forces. Success is not finally to be measured by fame or material prosperity. Human greatness consists ultimately in nobly accepting the responsibility of being what we are…” In Oedipus the King, Oedipus discovers this in a most brutal fashion. A dark secret of his family to which he was blissfully ignorant suddenly reveals itself to him, thus ruining his life. Sophocles uses character development in Oedipus, Creon, and Jocasta to develop the tragic pattern and evoke catharsis in the audience. In order to understand the circumstances of the play, one must understand the background story which ancient Greek audiences knew prior to viewing the play. A number of years before the play begins, King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes receive a prophecy that their son will one day kill Laius and marry Jocasta. One day, Jocasta bears a son. She and Laius order a slave to take the baby to Mount Cithaeron and leave him there to die. The slave takes the baby to the top of the mountain, but rather than leaving him to die, gives the baby to a shepherd from Corinth. The shepherd takes the baby to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth, who name the child Oedipus and raise him as their son. As a young man, Oedipus hears of a prophecy that says he will kill his father and marry his mother, and flees Corinth in fear of killing Polybus, whom he believes is his father. However, he encounters Laius, his real father, at the intersection of three roads on his way to Thebes. Oedipus kills Laius and most of his escort, leaving one man alive. Oedipus encounters a sphinx guarding a passageway into Thebes, solves its riddle, and gains entry to the city. The citizens hail him as a hero, and since Laius is dead, Oedipus marries Jocasta, his birth mother, and becomes king.
Spaaaaaam-tastic, eh?
That was just the back story paragraph and the intro.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:26 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:11 am
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