Pause and Reflect questions...Think Throughs...

PAUSE AND REFLECTS:

1) pg: 266- My impression of Oedipus is that he is cowardly and not sure of himself because he said hes wept through the nights. If he wasn't such a coward and if he was a better leader and wouldn't be crying, he would be doing something about it.

2)pg: 269- The cause of the plague in Thebes was because the King was killed.

3)pg:272- In the reading it hard a part that said it was one long cortege. A cortege is like a funeral procession. I just pictured like one funeral procession after another because there were so much deaths it was like one after another.

4)pg: 275- The curse that Oedipus made was that, "Let no crop grow out of the earth for them -shrivel their women, kill their sons, burn them to nothing in this plague that hit us now, or even something worse." that was for people who disobeyed. Bur the first curse was, "Let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step-"

5)pg:281- The murderer of Laius was Oedipus the king. In the reading Tiresias said, " I say you are the murderer you hunt."

6)pg:291- The reasons why Oedipus turns against Creon is because he thinks he is lying to him and trying to kill him.

7)pg:299- Oedipus starts to panic and becomes fearful because he knows he is the man who killed him.

8)pg:303- That his "father" is dead.

9)pg:307- Because he was left on the hill with his feet pinned together and was found and given to Polybus.

10)pg: 313- That he was the son of Laius.

11)pg:322- He blinds himself from agony and pain and because he discovered the truth. He blinds himself with pins from his mothers/wife outfit.


THINK THROUGHS:

pg:283

1)Oedipus sent for Tiresias because he is the only one that knows the truth about who killed the king.
2)The chorus thought that he was a great leader.
3)Oedipus was so determined to find the murderer of Laius because he was scared that the same thing could happen to him.And to stop the plague that was killing his people.

pg:300

1)At the place were three roads meet Oedipus killed a man that was his father the king but he didn't know he was his father or the king.
2)Oedipus ran away from his home in Corinth because he was scared that the prophecy about him killing his father would come true so he left.
3)Jocasta thought that the prophet and the prophecies were lies.

pg:314

1)The shepherd gave the baby to Polybus.
2)They think that hes a bad leader for killing a generation and that hes a bad leader.
3)He accidentally made the prophecy come true because he didn't know he was adopted and he ran away from people he thought were his parents but weren't really his parents and killed his real dad and married his mom accidentally.
4)I predict that he will probably kill himself or runaway.