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Sophocles and KING OEDIPUS

Sophocles and KING OEDIPUS. Sophocles. 496 B.C.-406 B.C. Greek playwright Wrote tragedies Poet Wrote Theban plays (The Oedipus Cycle) Introduced third actor. Thebes. Ancient city in Greece Setting for many tragedies, including Sophocles’. Festival of Dionysus.

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Sophocles and KING OEDIPUS

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  1. Sophocles and KING OEDIPUS

  2. Sophocles • 496 B.C.-406 B.C. • Greek playwright • Wrote tragedies • Poet • Wrote Theban plays (The Oedipus Cycle) • Introduced third actor

  3. Thebes • Ancient city in Greece • Setting for many tragedies, including Sophocles’

  4. Festival of Dionysus • Dionysus was god of wine and fertility • Only male actors • Playwrights competed against each other in categories of comedy and tragedy • Sophocles competed here

  5. Three Unities • Unity of action- play has one main action it follows • Unity of time- play takes place within 24 hours • Unity of place- play takes place within one physical space, geography is not compressed

  6. Terms • Hubris- can mean an exaggerated self-pride; in Ancient Greece Hubris referred to actions taken against a victim to shame and humiliate him, making the aggressor seem superior. • Catharsis- purification or cleansing; a cathartic experience • Hamartia- error in judgment; sin

  7. Themes • Blindness vs. sight • Self-knowledge • Pride • Truth • Responsibility • Fate/destiny vs. choice • The Matrix, Stranger Than Fiction, Deja Vu, any more?

  8. Tragic Hero • Noble birth • Hamartia- Tragic flaw leads to downfall-hero dies • Peripeteia-Reversal of fortune • Self-awareness/self-knowledge-moment of recognition • Audience fears and pities character- punishment does not fit crime • Middling character-

  9. Oedipus fits this characterization of a tragic hero… Take a few guesses as to what he will do after you have read the introduction to the play.

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