DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Pentheus, Lysistrata, Laius

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When lauis goes to the oracle and the oracle reveals to him that his child will kill him, have sex with his mom and share his father"s bed. So jocasta and lauis send a messenger with baby oed. to the mountains with his ankles tied together. The rising action of oedipus the king occurs when creon returns from the oracle with the news that the plague in. Thebes will end when the murderer of laius, the king before oedipus, is discovered and driven out. In oedipus the king, the consequences of oedipus"s learning of his identity as the man who killed his father and slept with his mother are the falling action. This discovery drives jocasta to hang herself, oedipus to poke out his own eyes, and creon to banish oedipus from thebes. Dionysus the protagonist arrives in thebes to demonstrate his divinity and punish the family of cadmus.

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