Oedipus Rex
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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 skilful in the art of using gestures.
Actors were carefully trained on their vocal mastery and movement on stage.
The audience is 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, who 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 His tragedy.
- Lokate is not right since, in the end, 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 weakness and speak on the unpredictable existence.
- He was blinded by Athena, and instead of receiving his sight back, he a given the ability to prophesy.
- I prefer Oedipus Rex—Tyrone Guthrie Production because it embraces the ancient Greek origin instead of distancing itself from such an ideology.
- I would like to know what role did the Chorus in the Play?