Q. What is the purpose of Ode 4 in Antigone?
Sophocles included Ode 4 with the motives to: Portray how Antigone’s unlawfulness has caused her to make her way to her death bed. To justify Antigone’s actions by stating that love will always be undefeated and that even though Antigone did commit suicide, because of her morals, desire was the winner.
Q. What happens in Scene 4 of Antigone?
In the fourth scene of Sophocles’s Antigone, we find Antigone on the way to the tomb where she will be shut in alive for attempting to bury her brother. Tired of so much discussion about Antigone, Creon orders the guards to take her quickly to the tomb – where she is now ready to be walled in and meet her fate.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is the purpose of Ode 4 in Antigone?
- Q. What happens in Scene 4 of Antigone?
- Q. What is the mood of the chorus upon its entrance What appeals do they make?
- Q. What is the meaning of Oedipus’s statement at the end of Scene 4?
- Q. Who killed his father and married his mother?
- Q. Who married his own mother?
- Q. When a son is in love with his mother?
- Q. Why did Oedipus not kill himself?
- Q. How did Jocasta kill herself?
- Q. Why is Oedipus convinced that his daughters futures will be full of suffering?
- Q. What curse did Oedipus place on his sons?
- Q. What is Oedipus’s curse?
- Q. Why does Oedipus curse the man who saved him?
- Q. What is Jocasta’s curse?
- Q. Why is Laius cursed?
- Q. Why were Oedipus feet pierced?
- Q. How did Oedipus go blind?
- Q. Is Tiresias blind?
- Q. What is the final punishment for Oedipus?
- Q. Why should I have eyes why when nothing I saw was worth seeing?
- Q. What moral does the chorus see in Oedipus’s life?
- Q. What reasons does Jocasta give for not having faith in the prophecy?
- Q. How does Oedipus die?
- Q. Who found Oedipus as a baby?
- Q. Who saved Oedipus as a baby?
- Q. How did Oedipus fulfill his prophecy?
- Q. What is the message of Oedipus?
- Q. What is the central theme of the legend of Oedipus?
- Q. Is Jocasta Oedipus mother?
Q. What is the mood of the chorus upon its entrance What appeals do they make?
What is the mood of the chorus upon its entrance? The mood of the Theban choral senators is fearful of the plague and suppliant toward any god who might relieve the city’s plight. What appeals do they make? They appeal to Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Ares, and Dionysus.
Q. What is the meaning of Oedipus’s statement at the end of Scene 4?
What is the meaning of Oedipus’s statement at the end of scene 4? He does not want to face the light, or the truth. He does not want to be “out there” anymore. This is why he gouges his eyes out.
Q. Who killed his father and married his mother?
Oedipus
Q. Who married his own mother?
Oedipus, unaware that Jocasta is his mother, marries her, and they have four children.
Q. When a son is in love with his mother?
The Oedipal complex, also known as the Oedipus complex, is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development to describe a child’s feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger toward his or her same-sex parent.
Q. Why did Oedipus not kill himself?
Oedipus’ decision to blind himself is very symbolic. Because of his hubris, he was blind to all of the warning signs about the path he was travelling. He refused to see. In the end, when all is brough to light, he blinds himself, so he finishes the play literally as blind as he figuratively was throughout.
Q. How did Jocasta kill herself?
Jocasta is dead, by suicide. She locked herself in her bedroom, crying for Laius and weeping for her monstrous fate. Oedipus came to the door in a fury, asking for a sword and cursing Jocasta. He finally hurled himself at the bedroom door and burst through it, where he saw Jocasta hanging from a noose.
Q. Why is Oedipus convinced that his daughters futures will be full of suffering?
Why is Oedipus convinced that his daughter’s futures will be all suffering? He wants Creon to watch over the daughters, since he can rely on him being a really good father to be like a babysitter at the same time.
Q. What curse did Oedipus place on his sons?
He found out Laius and Jocasta were his parents. Jocasta hung herself. What curse did Oedipus place on his sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and how does this curse come to fruition? They were cursed to die.
Q. What is Oedipus’s curse?
This discovery drives Jocasta to hang herself, Oedipus to poke out his own eyes, and Creon to banish Oedipus from Thebes. The falling action of Oedipus at Colonus is Oedipus’s curse of Polynices. The curse is followed by the onset of a storm, which Oedipus recognizes as a signal of his imminent death.
Q. Why does Oedipus curse the man who saved him?
Oedipus has fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family. This is the exact reason why he curses the man who has saved him when he’s an infant.
Q. What is Jocasta’s curse?
Appalled by his own actions and disgusted by his figurative blindness, Oedipus used the pin of one of Jocasta’s brooches to jab out his eyes, literally blinding himself. When his two sons (and brothers) refused to oppose his exile, the departing Oedipus cursed them.
Q. Why is Laius cursed?
Laius’ Abduction of Chrysippus. In exile Laius lived with PELOPS [pee’lops], king of Elis, whose son CHRYSIPPUS [kreye-sip’pus], or CHRYSIPPOS, he abducted. For this transgression of the laws of hospitality, Pelops invoked a curse on Laius and his family.
Q. Why were Oedipus feet pierced?
In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s feet were pierced on the orders of his birth father, Laius. Laius had just received a disturbing prophecy that his son would one day grow up to kill him. To make sure that the prophecy wouldn’t come true, Laius ordered that the infant Oedipus be left on a mountainside with his feet pierced.
Q. How did Oedipus go blind?
In fact, he was metaphorically blind to the truth of his birth for much of his life; when Oedipus finally learned the truth, he physically blinded himself by poking out his eyes with the long gold pins from his dead wife’s brooches.
Q. Is Tiresias blind?
Tiresias, in Greek mythology, a blind Theban seer, the son of one of Athena’s favourites, the nymph Chariclo. He is a participant in several well-known legends. Among the ancient authors who mention him are Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, and Ovid.
Q. What is the final punishment for Oedipus?
His pride has blinded him to his oncoming downfall and, fittingly, his punishment for that is to actually become blind.
Q. Why should I have eyes why when nothing I saw was worth seeing?
At the end of the play, when Oedipus sees that he has murdered his father and had children with his mother, he cannot bear to see the reality of what he has done and blinds himself: “Why should I have eyes? Why, when nothing I saw was worth seeing” ? (1723-1724).
Q. What moral does the chorus see in Oedipus’s life?
The chorus in Oedipus Rex amplifies the theme that it was hubris or pride on the part of Oedipus to imagine he could avoid his tragic destiny. It is an illusion, at any point in life, no matter how happy you are, to believe that happiness will last. Oedipus illustrates this.
Q. What reasons does Jocasta give for not having faith in the prophecy?
(a) Jocasta does not have faith in the prophecy because it stated that it was fate that Laius should die a victim at the hands of his own son, and the king was killed by foreign highway robbers where three roads met. The prophecy said that one person would kill the king upon a pathless hillside.
Q. How does Oedipus die?
Oedipus died at Colonus near Athens, where he was swallowed into the earth and became a guardian hero of the land.
Q. Who found Oedipus as a baby?
Brief Summary A shepherd finds the baby, though, and takes him to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth, who name him Oedipus and raise him as their own. One day, Oedipus goes to the Oracle of Delphi to find out who his real parents are.
Q. Who saved Oedipus as a baby?
Oedipus in Greek mythology, the son of Jocasta and of Laius, king of Thebes. Left to die on a mountain by Laius, who had been told by an oracle that he would be killed by his own son, the infant Oedipus was saved by a shepherd.
Q. How did Oedipus fulfill his prophecy?
While the old man moves to strike the insolent youth with his scepter, Oedipus throws the man down from his chariot, killing him. Thus, the prophecy in which Oedipus slays his own father is fulfilled, as the old man—as Oedipus discovers later—was Laius, king of Thebes and true father to Oedipus.
Q. What is the message of Oedipus?
The moral of Oedipus Rex is that it is useless to try to escape the power of fate. Oedipus’s attempt to bypass the prophecy which states he will kill his father and sleep with his mother ironically leads to the fulfillment of these awful conditions.
Q. What is the central theme of the legend of Oedipus?
Guilt and Shame The play begins with a declaration from the oracle at Delphi: Thebes is suffering because the person guilty of the murder of King Laius has not been brought to justice. Oedipus sets himself the task of discovering the guilty party—so guilt, in the legal sense, is central to Oedipus Rex.
Q. Is Jocasta Oedipus mother?
Oedipus accepted the throne and married Laius’ widowed queen Jocasta, Oedipus’ actual mother, thereby fulfilling the second half of the prophecy. Jocasta bore her son four children: two girls, Antigone and Ismene, and two boys, Eteocles and Polynices.