1. We have read the opening episode of Oedipus Rex. Once again, we begin with the plague and questions of why it is killing the people. Oedipus must figure out the cause of the plague to save the people of Thebes.
Some questions to consider:
1. What is significant about the first line being a question?
2. What are your initial impressions of King Oedipus?
3. How does the priest describe the people of Thebes' view of their king?
4. What do we learn about Oedipus' past from the priest?
5. What action does Oedipus take to solve the problems affecting Thebes?
6. When Creon arrives from the Oracle, what does Oedipus insist that he does? What does this tell us about his character?
7. What does Creon report from the Oracle?
8. What is Oedipus' response to this news?
9. What is the dramatic irony that surrounds Oedipus' response?
Dramatic Irony: a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
10. What does Oedipus promise to do for Thebes?
11. What theory does Oedipus immediately develop about Laius' death?
12. Why did the citizens of Thebes NOT investigate Laius' death?
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