comment on Oscar Wilde, Stanislavski, and David Mamet
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- All the comment on Oscar Wilde, Stanislavski, and David Mamet suggest that
The average theatergoer today is not as expressive in the theater
- The theater could accommodate an audience of over 15000 people
The actor was skillful in the art of using gestures
Actors were carefully trained on their vocal mastery and movement on stage
The audience ere more expressive than the one today
- As the play opens Oedipus wants to stop the country from its torment which is his main objective.
His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours – because the oracle laid the same
It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse toward our mother and our
we shrink back from him with the whole force of the repression by which those wishes have
- The sphinx resembles the head of a human and the body of an animal
The riddle was You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot-see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him! Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.
- The two scenes include when he: he began to identify his parent which is to identify in himself
He returns to the Creon to find the killer of his Latios
- “Of the high estate,” this suggests that Oedipus was too proud.
- Oedipus was a good leader since after his downfall he realizes his mistakes and goes ahead to punish himself
Oedipus not only accepts his edict issued early in the day, but he also blinds himself as further punishment
- Sophocles wants us to feel disappointed in Oedipus since he expounds further on the His tragedy great sympathy for Oedipus, which, in part, manipulates the audience’s emotional response
- Lokate is not right since at the end of the play Oedipus leaves behind a promising result among his people.
- “… I can not be dishonored. / Luck is my mother”
“… I take the son’s part, just as though / I were his son, to press the fight for him and see it won!”
- since the violence occurs offstage and the scenes usually include only dialogue, the chorus relieves an otherwise static presentation with its dances or stylized movements as it crosses the stage during the odes
Choragos, a functional character who in Oedipus provides cautious advice and suggestions
- critical parent issue is forced on the play that leads people to understand the relevance of keeping the laws of the Gods among other societal issues
- The killer of the Latios is caught and thus subjected to punishment for his disobedience
- The Exodus of the play leaves with a comment on Human frailty and peak on the unpredictable nature of existence
- He was blinded by Athena an instead of receiving his sight back he a given the ability to prophesy
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