PPT-Oedipus  Project: Group 3

Ben Fa Elizabeth Hoang Adam Houghtaling Sovannah Thou Jenny Yu Literal Meaning of the Prompt Prompt Discuss the sympathy towards Oedipus Jocasta Antigone and Ismene or the people of Thebes Should the sympathy lie with these characters or the people of the Thebes who watched the entire episode take part. The first example from the play that supports this is that Oedipus was warned by the gods that he would marry his mother and kill his father yet he tempted this fate by getting married to Jocasta and killing some men on the road to Thebes In this ex Period 2 English. DD. Citizens begged the king to lift the plague. .. PLEASE!!! Lift the Plague!! WE BEG YOU!. I sent Creon to the oracle to find out what is wrong, my people!. We must find the murder of . 1. What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play?. . A. Accusing . Oedipus. . B. Asking . the gods for help. . C. Asking . Teiresias for help. . D. Sacrificing . to the Sphinx. Episode 4. The shepherd arrives who exposed the infant of . Laius. and escaped when . Laius. was killed. . . The . Herdsman (shepherd) reveals that he did not destroy the infant because he pitied the infant and gave it to someone far away from Thebes. (Refer to lines 1183-1191.). Oedipus Rex. You have been summoned by a Greek oracle to have your future told to you…what news does she impart to you concerning your fate and your destiny?. Journal Entry…Imagine. “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities”-. 1 ENG 3U1 – Oedipus – Oedipus – B. Pius Oedipus as Philosophy Text, and Plato ’ s “ Allegory of the Cave. For each of the following examples from Plato’s . also known by the Latin title . Oedipus Rex. , is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BCE. Oedipus the King. Link to Family Tree / Images of Stage. http://www.aug.edu/~nprinsky/Humn2001/oed-nq.htm. & The Tragic Hero. What’s an Archetype?. Carl Jung – (1875 – 1961) psychologist . Developed concepts of introvert/extrovert and collective unconscious. Archetype – Universal patterns of thought, action, narrative that transcend culture, history, etc.. 24. Wednesday, February 25. GUM 8.2. Literature 8.1. Literary Analysis and Composition 2014-2015. GUM 8.2. What are our lesson objectives?. What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?. I will be able to:. Ms. Bailey. Sophocles. Born in . Colonus. , Greece in 494 BC. Died in 406 BC.. Was acting in theaters since he was 16 years old. . Went on to write some of the most well-known Greek tragedies.. Oedipus background. Colonus. , . Antigone. The story of the cursed House of Thebes as taken from the following Sophoclean plays. The First Family of Greek Tragedy was the House of Cadmus, the royal family of Thebes.. Thebes was a real city in central Greece with real history, but there was a dark side.. 12-2 English. Miss Lindner. Where it begins…. Birth/Early Life of . Laius. Prince of Thebes. Father was killed in battle, too young to rule the country. Sent to live in Pisa with King . Pelops. Raised with . Symbol. A . symbol . is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself.  In “Oedipus the King,” what are the symbol(s) that express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning? Analyze how those symbol(s) functions in the play and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole.. Inquiry Lesson: the Tragedy. https://youtu.be/eVRU5MVYNiw?list=PLpomt1C_5D_eFMd7zIRzDApad1CEskB5l. Have you ever been blind to a personal flaw?. Can someone escape fate?. Poor Thebes!. Thebes was traditionally one of the first .