THTR1170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Satyr Play, Tragic Hero, Dionysia
25 Oct 2016
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Key characters: oedipus: king of thebes, marries his mom and kills his dad because he doesn"t know who they are. Has a telltale limp and scars on his feet from when he was chained and sent to be killed. Fatal flaw is hubris and blindness: tiresias: blind prophet who tell. Oedipus that he is being blind himself -- pretty much reveals the entire plot of the story to. King of thebes after saving them from the sphinx, but there"s a horrible plague so he sends a messenger to the oracle to ask what they can do to save the country. The oracle says the city is in peril because of the unsolved murder of the king laius (jocasta"s husband and. Oedipus" father) saying that the murderer is still in thebes. Tiresias trying to figure out who did it. Initially t refuses to tell him, but when.
