Part I
1. Notes
2. Impression before reading - The play, Oedipus Rex, is about a magnificent man's reversal and recognition. His guilty actions are marrying his mother and killing his father. Acts that may be sympathized with due to the an inner child desire in each audience member to be attracted to your opposite sex parent and want to kill your same sex parent called the Oedipus Complex. For the committing these actions; however, in this play, the antagonist shall be punished. His fall signifies the inequity man has with the gods.
Part II
1. Page 61 Lines 9 and 36
2. The current status of his state is desolate. The plague ruined the land along with draught and famine.
3. It allows the audience to connect to an emotional observation in an imaginary but concrete form.
4. The desolation of the state and Oedipus' great dead with the Spinx.
5. Gods please save us. Our people are dieing. No mind of man can when over the God's.
Part III
1. Lines 83 and 84 describe Teiresias and lines 113 and 116 show the inner conflict.
2. Oedipus and Teiresias argue passionately about the release of the information that will save the state but hurt the king.
3. Lines 164 and 163
4. It is ironic that Oedipus is searching for the one who killed the king so vigorously and wishes such curses upon him when he is the culprit. The audience knows something the characters do not.
5. Line 48 and 49
6.The fall of Oedipus and fulfillment of the prophecy.
- NT
