Oedipus Exam Study Guide Exam with complete solution 2024

Oedipus Exam Study Guide Exam with complete solution 2024 Tragedy Good man falls from happiness to misery. Elevates man because we learn from their suffering. Aristotle's unities Time (24 hours), Place (1 setting), Action (1 plot conflict) Anagnorisis moment of revelation (discovery/understanding) Peripeteia a turning point in an adventure; rapidly/drastically moving from one state to the opposite (in a short amount of time) Tragic hero a protagonist with a fatal flaw(hamartia) which eventually leads to his downfall, starting as a good respected man in the community and falling to a state of misery, impacting the whole of his community Hamartia idea of a tragic flaw, which is a flaw inside a character's being that causes their downfall, eliciting both fear and pity in the audience Pity to feel sorry for; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian tragedy Fear phobia/afraid of; what the audience feels when watching the downfall of a hero in Aristotelian tragedy Essential elements of Aristotelian tragedy (5) tragic hero is a good, respected man in the community; tragic hero must fall from a state of happiness to one of misery; the fall comes about due to the tragic hero's hamartia; the fall elicits both fear and pity in the audience; the fall impacts an entire community, people or nation Catharsis the purging or release of emotional tension; an emotional outpouring Motifs in the play sight/blindness; free will/fate; Riddle of the Sphinx What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?; Oedipus's correct response was "a man" (child crawling, adult walking, elder using a cane), but another way to think about the riddle is that it speaks of Oedipus himself (child crawling, adult walking, blind man using cane at the end)