English 2201.  Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is used extensively in the Oedipus trilogy. This is when the audience knows details which the character.

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English 2201

 Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is used extensively in the Oedipus trilogy. This is when the audience knows details which the character does not know. The character speaks and his/her words have two meanings – a simple meaning and a more complicated one known to the audience and not the speaker.

 The Riddle of the Sphinx The Sphinx was a creature which had the body of an animal and face of a woman. It terrorised the city and gave the people of Thebes a riddle, promising that it would not leave until it was solved. The riddle was: What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening? Oedipus had solved it by guessing that it meant a man. The people of Thebes were so grateful they made him the King.

 Hubris Hubris is an act of extreme arrogance where a person directly compares himself to a god. The Greeks believed it was wrong to do this as it would make the god seek revenge on a human who was arrogant enough to think that he was on the same level as a god.

 Greek Gods Mentioned  Athene: goddess of wisdom and war  Artemis: goddess of moon and hunting  Apollo: god of hunting, healing and prophecy  Ares: god of death