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8 Cards in this Set
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Priest: From the beginning, Oedipus's hubris is encouraged. This is his downfall. |
"Act, defend yourself, your former glory! Your country calls you savior now" |
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Oedipus: A heavy sense of irony is present in Oedipus Rex, in order to make the disruption of natural order that much more exciting for the audience as they know something the actors do not. X2 |
"Whoever killed the king may decide to kill me too, with the same violent hand" "I will speak out now as a stranger to the story, a stranger to the crime" |
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Tireseas: Power of the Gods is present through Tieresias (blind prophet) who brings the truth |
"You criticize my temper... unaware of the one you live with" |
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Oedipus: Oedipus reveals his true colours throughout the play gradually. He is nasty to Tireseas and won't listen to him. Heavy sense of irony that Oedipus thinks because Tireseas has lost his physical sight, he looses moral insight. |
"Not for you, old man. You've lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf senses, eyes blind as stone!" |
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Chorus: Throughout Oedipus Rex, the Chorus present an ongoing message to the audience. Sophcles uses them to make sure the audience realise never to underestimate the power of the Gods. |
"Zeus and Apollo know, they know, the great masters of all the dark and depth of human life." |
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A belief in destinty, fate and fortune was equally as present in Oedipus Rex, the play. |
Messenger: "A light tip of the scales can put old bones to rest" Jocasta: "What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our life" |
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Similarly, Sopchles creates an agnorisis point in the play. Which happens to be the realisation of truth for Oedipus. He realises hes been blind. |
"O god - all come true, all burst to light! O light - now let me look my last on you!" |
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Contrastingly to King Lear, the messenger describes Oedipus's removal of his eyes instead of perfroming it on the stage as it would have offended the God's. |
"He rips off her brooches, the long gold pins holding her robes - and lifting them high, looking straight up into the points, he digs them down the socks of his eyes" |
