Oedipus Rex Elements Flashcards
1
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Setting
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Thebes, Ancient Greece; 400 B.C.
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Protagonist
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Oedipus
3
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Antagonist
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Fate
4
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Conflict
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Oedipus attempts to run away from fate, in order to protect himself from shame, but instead fate is always with him, even though he might not be aware.
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Protagonist cannot accept:
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That fate and the gods are always remaining with him, even when he thinks that he himself has escape fate.
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Resolution
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Oedipus discovers the truth about his past, revealing that he has shamed himself through the fulfillment of different prophecies, and he self-exiles himself.
7
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Theme statement
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When a man decides to protect himself from his own fortune, fortune and fate manage to keep up with him through his own life.
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Theme (3 examples)
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Fate/the future
- Oedipus is told a prophecy by a Corinthian man, foretelling his future of having kids with his mother and killing his father.
- Laius and Jocasta are told that their child will murder Laius himself.
- Tiresias warns Oedipus that his own personal “escape” from fate will eventually backfire on Oedipus himself.
