Pause and Reflect Questions...And Thinking Through

Pause and Reflect

1) pg 266- My impression towards Oedipus as a leader is that he comes off not brave abd coward of himself because is says how he wept throught the nights. It makes him seem like hes moping and like has no confidence. My impression would change if he stood up to being a better leader and stoped crying.

2) pg 269- I believe the cause of the plague in Thebes is the king had died.

3) pg 272- The details that helped me visualize Thebes as a city of death were its stating that thebes is dying and death is spreading death.

4) pg 275- The curse Oedipus puts on the killer or killers of Laius was the plague.

5) pg 281- Tiresias names Oedipus as the murderer of Laius.

6) pg 291- Oedipus turns against Creon because he was told that Creon was plotting to kill him.

7) pg 299- Oedipus becomes fearful when he hears that piece of information because he feels hes being haunted/stalked.

8) pg 303- What Oedipus learns about Polybus from the messenger was that he is dead and gone from growing age.

9) pg 307- It came about that Oedipus was raised as Polybus' son Because he was left on the hill with his feet pinned together and was found and given to Polybus.

10) pg 313- Oedipus discovers that he was the son of the kind Laius.

11) pg 322- Oedipus blinds himself by taking a pin from his wifes mothers dress and why was because he thought he was a disgrace because the prophecy came throught that he was marrying him mother and he has killed his father.



Thinking Through
Pg. 283
1) Oedipus sent for Tiresias because he is the only one who know about the death of Laius.
2)The Chorus feels that hes a great leader.
3)I think Oedipus is determined to discover the murderer of Lauis to make peace. Fearful that it will happen to him.

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.