Oedipus the King

Pause and reflect:
pg 266: Oedipus seems brave. He is honorable he killed the Sphinx. Has potential to be a great king.
Pg 269: The cause of the plauge in Thebes is because the king has died.
Pg 272: I visualize people dying. Day and night. Everywhere is a funeral.
pg 275: Oedipus put a curse on the killers the curse was to "let the man or men die in agony, step by painful step".
Pg 281: Tiresias names Oedipus the murder of Laius. Tiresias tells Oedipus you are the murder you haunt.

Thinking Through the Literature: pg 283
1) Oedipus send for Tiresias because he is the only one who knows about the death of Laius.
2)The chourus feels that Oedipus is a great leader.
3)Oedipus is so determined to find the murder to make peace. Fearful that it will happen to him.

Pg 291: Oedipus turns on Creon because he thinks he is lying and trying to kill him.
Pg 299: He became fearful because he knows he is the man who killed laius at a place where the three roads met.

Thinking Through the Literature: pg 300
1) Oedipus killed Laius king of Thebes were the three roads met.
2) An oracle told him he would kill his father and marry his mother, so he ran away to prevent it from happening.
3) Jocostas view of prophecies is that she dosent't believe in them.


Pg 303: He learns that his father is dead.
pg 307: He was left on a hill with his feet pinned together. Found and given to Polybus.
Pg 313: He is the son of Laius.
Pg 322: He blinds himself from agony and pain. Goughes his eyes out with mothers pinn from dress.
Thinking Through the literature Pg 314:
1)Shepard gave baby to Polybus.
2)They think hes is a bad leader .
3)Made th eprophecy come true by running away to another towm.
4) Predict that he will kill himself or runaway.