Oedipus Rex Dr Green Stages of Fear Confidence Fear Alarm Relief Panic Despair Confidence Basis of confidence in Knowledge He thought he Knew who his parents were He thought he knew he had escaped the predictions of the Delphi oracle ID: 217785
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The Stages of Fear In Oedipus Rex
Dr. GreenSlide2
Stages of Fear
Confidence
Fear
Alarm
Relief
Panic
DespairSlide3
Confidence
Basis of confidence in
Knowledge
He thought he Knew who his parents were
He thought he knew he had escaped the predictions of the Delphi oracle
Skills
Had solved the riddle of the sphinx
Resources
Had the help of
Creon
and Apollo
Power
Was the ruler of ThebesSlide4
Aristotle On Fear
Fear
expectation that something destructive, i.e., something causing great pain, will happen to
person
in the near futureSlide5
Aquinas On Fear
Fear is
a painful feeling arising from
a future evil
that difficult
irresistible--impossible or difficult to avoid
surpasses the power of him that fears
repelled only with difficulty
greatness
of the
danger
vs. weakness of the person
certain contraction
Physiologically
PsychologicallySlide6
Aquinas
Two types of fear
corruptive evil causes natural fear
Fear for one’s existence
Economic conditions are a significant source of fear because one’s existence depends upon
one’s livelihood
painful evil causes learned fears
arise as desires arise through experienceSlide7
Alarm
Alarm is a painful feeling caused when one first becomes conscious of the possibility of harm from imminent danger
It is an awakening to dangerSlide8
Alarm
Knowledge
He claims to be a stranger to the crime
He vows to maintain the cause of the god and the murdered man
Pursue the matter as though he was my father
Hypothesis formed
Teiresias did it
Others are plotting against himSlide9
Alarm
Resources at his disposal
Augury
Skills
“My mother wit, untaught of auguries, solved the riddle of the Sphinx”
He is good at solving riddles
Power
Will bring all the power of the state to the solution of the problemSlide10
Alarm
Teiresias sets off the alarm
All are lacking in knowledge.
He accuses Oedipus of murder and incest.
He claims that Oedipus is ignorant of his lineage.Slide11
Alarm
Alarm is further reinforced by Teiresias’ riddles
The murderer is both native and alien
Oedipus will had his birthday and go to his grave
Oedipus can see but is blind
Oedipus is rich and poor
Oedipus is brother and father to his children
Oedipus is son and husband to his wife
Oedipus is assassin and replacement of fatherSlide12
Alarm
The Chorus—set the stage for the Relief Stage
Wonders whether the charges well founded.
Neither the present nor the future is clear.
Proved himself good as gold with SphinxSlide13
Relief
Alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc.
A feeling of cheerfulness or optimism that follows the removal of anxiety, pain, or distress:
“I breathed a sigh of relief .”
Deliverance from or alleviation of anxiety, pain, distress, etc Slide14
Relief in Episode 2
Relief arises when a threat is gone
Oedipus thought
Creon
was a threat to him
Creon
argues that the charges are baseless
A secure repose is preferred to ruling
He has never had any desire for throne
Oedipus should check by seeking a prophecy at Delphi
Oedipus should investigate to see if there is indeed
Teiresias
is plotting against him
Jocasta
supports
Creon's
innocence
The Chorus supports
Creon's
innocenceSlide15
Panic
Jocasta
tells Oedipus about the Delphic predictions for
Laius
Jocasta
tells Oedipus that Laius was killed where three roads meet
Oedipus’s panic:
What memories, what wild tumult of the soul
Came o'er me, lady, as I heard thee speak!
Jocasta
describes
Laius
, and the description matches the man Oedipus killed
Jocasta
describes
Laius
’ retinue and mode of travel, and these match the what was present when Oedipus killed a manSlide16
Panic
Oedipus demands that the surviving slave appear before him
What is at issue
Oedipus’ parentage is in question
The truthfulness of the Delphic oracle which said Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother
Oedipus killed someone in a cart similar to the one described by
Jocasta
where the three roads meetSlide17
Panic
The only ray of hope arises from the fact that it is unclear whether there were many robbers, as the survivor claimed, or only one. Slide18
Aquinas Hope
Hope
approach toward
something good
in the future
arduous and difficult to obtain, so an element of uncertainty
possible to obtainSlide19
False Hope
Messenger tells Oedipus that
Polybus
is dead
Oedipus declares that the oracles are dead
This turns out to be false hope because
Polybus
is not his father
Oedipus came to Corinth from a shepherd on
Mt Cithaeron
The only hope now is that he is “base born.”Slide20
Despair
Despair
Consternation
Dismay
Hopelessness
FatalismSlide21
Aquinas Despair
Despair
is the opposite of hope
Is the withdrawal from
something good
in the future
that is impossible to obtainSlide22
Despair
Oedipus learns that the child from the shepherd’s field is son of Laius
Oedipus is the child from the field
All hope is gone
“I stand a wretch, in birth, in wedlock cursed,
A parricide, incestuously, triply cursed!” Slide23
Despair
Jocasta
has withdrawn from life, finding it impossible to live with the disgrace
Oedipus has withdrawn from the world by blinding himself
He will no longer see
His daughters
His city
The statues of the gods
He asks to be put to death
Will be exiled from Thebes
His daughters have been deprived of social existence and will die unwed and barren. They have been deprived of the goods of living in society.