1. Oedipus Rex By: Sophocles (Ancient Greek about 429 BC)
Presentation by: Angela Pender and Semijah Smith

2. Setting In a mythical past of ancient greece
Oedipus, the King, is set in Thebes(Near Athens)

3. Who was in it? Oedipus-(has swift actions and great sight)
Chorus- (elders who comment on situations)
Shepard-(a herder, used to serve previous King)
Messenger- (tells Oedipus the news of royal family)
Creon- (brother-in-law/ uncle)
Second Messenger-(announces death of Queen and blindness of Oedipus)
Teiresias-(guides the king with advice)
Jocasta- (Queen of Thebes, mother/wife of Oedipus)

4. Now let’s recap There was Prophecy
Oedipus’s parents tried to kill their son
The child is saved
Years later the prophecy is filled
Oedipus finds out about his prophecy
More deaths happen and he steps down from the throne

5. Important Quotes
“I curse myself as well…if by any chance he proves to be an intimate of our house” (Line ) - Oedipus
“The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt the most of all” - Messanger
“So I will fight for him as if he were my own father, stop at nothing, search the world to lay my hands on the man who shed his blood” (Line 302) - Oedipus
“Listen to me. You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: You can not see wretchedness of your life, Nor in whose house you live, no, nor with whom…you do not even know the blind wrongs that you have done them, on earth and in the world below” (Line 195) - Tiresias
So I will fight for him as if he were my father, stop at nothing, search the world to lay my hands on the man who shed his blood.
So I will fight for him as if he were my father, stop at nothing, search the world to lay my hands on the man who shed his blood.
Oedipus

6. Themes Prophecies/ Oracles /Fate The Willingness to Ignore the Truth
The Limits of Free Will

7. Author’s Technique Irony (Dramatic) Oedipus doesn’t know his
real parents
As the reader’s we know the
truth

8. Characterization Oedipus’s determination to find Laius’s murderer
Oedipus is known as arrogant because of how he talks to prophet Teiresias and his tone of voice
Oedipus is notable king because he acknowledges his mistakes