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26 Cards in this Set
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Hypocrites
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The one performer who has seen to answer the chorus. Literally means an "answer" or interpreter."
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Themes of Oedipus?
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• Wilingness to ignore the truth (blindness)
• The limits of free will |
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What is the main irony?
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The limits of free will
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Oedipus' swollen foot
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• Affliction injury
• **** marked him & set him apart • someone's walk represent his path/choices in life |
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Three-way crossroads
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Place where choice has to be made. Usually symbolize moments where decisions will have important consequences.
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Dionysus
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God of wine & fertility. Plays made go please him.
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Aeschylus
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Brought out dialogue
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Parados
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Separated scenes
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Trilogies
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(3 stories)
• Antigone • Oedipus the King • Colonis |
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Sophocles
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Separated playwright & actor
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Trilogies
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(3 stories)
• Antigone • Oedipus the King • Colonis |
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Aristotle's deff. of tragic hero
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Recognition & reversal of fortune
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Qualities of tragic hero
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1) consistency
2) tries to be good 3) balance (not to good-not too bad) 4) life- like 5) appropriate |
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Hubris
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Obsessive pride
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Oedipus myth
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Born to kill father, marry mother
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Dramatic irony
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Created bc audience knows story
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Motif
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Emotional blindness worse than physical blindness
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Lampooned
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To poke fun @ something
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Author?
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Sophocles
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Bawdy
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Jokes that are sexual in humor
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Ode
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Divides scenes
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Catharsis
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Healthy calling forth of purging of emotion. That "good cry that makes you stronger.
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Archetype
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Original pattern or model of all things of the same type.
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Oedipus at Colonus
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Not a lot going on, a lot of soul searching
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Oedipus' tragic flaw?
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Hubris
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What creature walks on 4 legs at dawn, 2 legs at noon, 3 legs in evening
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Human (4 legs: baby, 2 legs: adult, 3 legs: elder)
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