Oedipus Exam Study Guide Exam with complete solution 2024
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Oedipus Exam Study Guide Exam with complete solution 2024
Tragedy
Good man falls from happiness to misery. Elevates man because we learn from their suffering.
Aristotle's unities
Time (24 hours), Place (1 setting), Action (1 plot conflict)
Anagnorisis
moment of revelation (discovery/u...
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Tragedy
Good man falls from happiness to misery. Elevates man because we learn from their suffering.
Aristotle's unities
Time (24 hours), Place (1 setting), Action (1 plot conflict)
Anagnorisis
moment of revelation (discovery/understanding)
Peripeteia
a turning point in an adventure; rapidly/drastically moving from one state to the opposite (in a short
amount of time)
Tragic hero
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
idea of a tragic flaw, which is a flaw inside a character's being that causes their downfall, eliciting both
fear and pity in the audience
Pity
to feel sorry for; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian tragedy
Fear
phobia/afraid of; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian
tragedy
Essential elements of Aristotelian tragedy (5)
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 both fear and
pity in the audience; the fall impacts an entire community, people or nation
Catharsis
the purging or release of emotional tension; an emotional outpouring
Motifs in the play
sight/blindness; free will/fate;
Riddle of the Sphinx
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),
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