Oedipus

Question 1

Settings of the play

Answer 1

Kintharion, Thebes, Delphi, Phocus, Corinth.

Question 2

supplicant

Answer 2

one who begs the king for something

Question 3

Clairvoyant

Answer 3

A psychic, Teiresias

Question 4

Choragus

Answer 4

soloist of the chorus

Question 5

Prophecy

Answer 5

a statement that comes true if you act upon it.

Question 6

Oracles

Answer 6

What a god says

Question 7

Hubris

Answer 7

Excessive pride

Question 8

Hamartia of Ignorance

Answer 8

A mistake that you didn’t know was wrong

Question 9

Hamartia of knowledge

Answer 9

A mistake you knew was wrong

Question 10

The 2 motifs of the play

Answer 10

sight, and man

Question 11

2 dramatic questions

Answer 11

Who killed Laius?
Who are my mom and dad?

Question 12

What is Oedipus’ motive at the start of the play

Answer 12

He wants to be the savior again

Question 13

motive at the middle: Oedipus

Answer 13

wants to avoid being killed

Question 14

motive of Oedipus at the end

Answer 14

wants to be exiled

Question 15

Oedipus’ hubris

Answer 15

degrading Apollo

Question 16

Where is Oedipus’ hubris

Answer 16

at the Oracles of Delphi

Question 17

Oedipus’ hamartia of knowledge

Answer 17

his hubris; he attempts to flee the fate the gods have laid before him on Corinth.

Question 18

Oedipus’ hamartia of ignorance

Answer 18

his unintentional wrongdoings, killing the men with his short-tempered rage.

Question 19

What is the family curse

Answer 19

If you have a kid, they will try to kill you, so that they can overtake you.

Question 20

Hamartia of ignorance: Jocasta

Answer 20

She wants a child, but she didn’t know about the curse

Question 21

Hamartia of knowledge

Answer 21

She tells Oedipus to ignore the Oracles

Question 22

How does Jocasta dies

Answer 22

hanged herself

Question 23

Jocasta’s theme

Answer 23

No one is right all the time

Question 24

Percepteia

Answer 24

A strange realization; an unexpected thing that comes.

Question 25

Themes of Sophocles

Answer 25

1. Search of Identity
2. Nature of innocence and guilt
3. abuse of power
4. fate of the gods
5. Nature of moral responsibility

Question 26

Aristotle’s hero cycle

Answer 26

1. recognition
2. reversal
3. suffering

Question 27

3 prophecies

Answer 27

1. your son will kill you; given to Laius
2. You’ll kill dad and sleep with mom and have incestual children; given to Oedipus.
3. Expell the killer of Laius; given to Creon.

Question 28

juxtaposition

Answer 28

cause and effect of 2 things (not people)

Question 29

Sphinx and the riddle

Answer 29

Oedipus’ name helped him get to the answer of MAN.

Question 30

Oedipus’ Tragic flaw leading to fate

Answer 30

his short temper leads to him killing his father.

Question 31

Catharsis

Answer 31

emotional cleansing; laugh or cry

Question 32

Teiresias

Answer 32

The blind man that is a psycic

Question 33

Merope

Answer 33

Oedipus’ adopted mom

Question 34

Polybus

Answer 34

Who Oedipus thought was his father

Question 35

Shepherd

Answer 35

Where the Messenger from Corinth got the baby from

Question 36

Creon

Answer 36

Jocasta’s brother; took control of the city

Question 37

Antigone

Answer 37

the daughter that accompanies Oedipus out of the city

Question 38

Jocasta

Answer 38

Non-believer in the Oracles, the one who slept with her son

Question 39

Apollo & Plagues

Answer 39

Apollo cursed a plague on Thebes because of the pollution someone caused.

Question 40

last explicit theme

Answer 40

Let every man in mankind’s frailty consider his last day

Question 41

2nd explicit theme

Answer 41

2. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves

Question 42

An example of dramatic irony

Answer 42

I am a child of luck - Oedipus

Question 43

1st theme

Answer 43

for time and time alone will show the true man. Though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

Question 44

What does Oedipus beg of Creon at the end?

Answer 44

For his daughters to be safe