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Oedipus Exam Study Guide With Complete solutions Tragedy - answerGood man falls from happiness to misery. Elevates man because we learn from their suffering. Aristotle's unities - answerTime (24 hours), Place (1 setting), Action (1 plot conflict) Anagnorisis - answermoment of revelation (disco...

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Oedipus Exam Study Guide With Complete solutions Tragedy - answer✔✔Good man falls from happiness to misery. Elevates man because we learn from their suffering. Aristotle's unities - answer✔✔Time (24 hours), Place (1 setting), Action (1 plot conflict) Anagnorisis - answer✔✔moment of revelation (discovery/und erstanding) Peripeteia - answer✔✔a turning point in an adventure; rapidly/drastically moving from one state to the opposite (in a short amount of time) Tragic hero - answer✔✔a protagonist with a fatal flaw(hamartia) which eventually leads to his downfall, starting as a good respected man in the community and falling to a state of misery, impacting the whole of his community Hamartia - answer✔✔idea of a tragic flaw, which is a flaw inside a character's being that causes their downfall, eliciting both fear an d pity in the audience Pity - answer✔✔to feel sorry for; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian tragedy Fear - answer✔✔phobia/afraid of; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian trag edy Essential elements of Aristotelian tragedy (5) - answer✔✔tragic hero is a good, respected man in the community; tragic hero must fall from a state of happiness to one of misery; the fall comes about due to the tragic hero's hamartia; the fall elicits b oth fear and pity in the audience; the fall impacts an entire community, people or nation Catharsis - answer✔✔the purging or release of emotional tension; an emotional outpouring Motifs in the play - answer✔✔sight/blindness; free will/fate; Riddle of the S phinx - answer✔✔What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?; Oedipus's correct response was "a man" (child crawling, adult walking, elder using a cane), but another way to think about the riddle i s that it speaks of Oedipus himself (child crawling, adult walking, blind man using cane at the end) Chorus (what and why) - answer✔✔12 dancing and singing men in unison; represent the population of Thebes

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