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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. (2006). In K. Beers(Ed.), Elements of literature: World literature (pp. 204-262). Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

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A. P , 1
B.  “If i had eyes, I do not know how I could bear the sight of my father, when I came to the house of death, or my mother: for I have sinned against them both so vilely that i could not make my peace by strangling my own life” pg lines 1317-1322(tragic ending)

C. This is where he made himself blind because he couldn't bare see is mother or father because of the sins he committed and also no one will figure out the crime he committed because they will be worried about that he's blind

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A. P , 3
B. “What life? If only I had died, this weight of monstrous doom could not have dragged me and darlings down.” pg 256 lines 1302-1305 (acceptance)

C. He accepts the fact that he killed his father and married his mother but he believes that he should of died when he was a baby so this wouldn't of happened and his parents would be alive because he feels guilty.

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A. P , 4
B.  “God. God. Is there a sorrow greater? Where shall I find harbor in this world? My voice is hurled far on a dark wind. What has God done to me?” pg 254  lines 1259- 1263 (acceptance)
C.  He is talking to God to find a way to accept what he did and what he should do forward.

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A. P , 5
B.  “Ah God! It was true! All the prophecies! Now, o light, may I look on you for the last time! I, Oedipus, Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage damned, Damned in the blood he shed with his own hand!” pg 249-250 lines 1120- 1127 (Downfall)
C.  That he believes that all the prophecies are true and he is damning himself with what he did because his hands are covered in the blood of his father but also his mother because she committed suicide because she didn't want to be ashamed

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A. P , 2
B. “Oh never to have come here with my father’s blood upon me! Never to have been the man they call his mother’s husband! Oh accursed! Oh child of evil, to have entered that wretched bed the selfsame one! More primal than sin itself, this fell to me” pg 256 lines 1307-1313

C.  This is where he is analyzing what he has done. That he killed his father and married his mother. He blames himself with what has happened and he says he's evil because of the prophecy saying that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother

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A. P , 7
B.  “ You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: you cannot see the wretchedness of your life. Nor in whose house you live, on, nor with whom. Who are your father and mother? Can you tell me ? You do not even know the blind wrongs that you have done them, on earth and in the world below” pg 322 lines 398-404 (Tragic Fall)

C.  Oedipus finds out that he might of committed something bad which leads to him asking lots of questions and finding out what he did. It's a start of the tragic fall.

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A. P , 8
B. "Yet we have come to you to to make our prayer as to the man surest in mortal ways and wisest in the ways of God. You saved us from the Sphinx, that flinty singer, and the tribute we paid to her so long; yet you were never better informed than we, nor could we teach you: It was some god breathed in you to set us free" page 309 lines 36-42 (power)

C.  Oedipus has a lot of power and the people want him to help them because of the plague killing them which can whip out the whole country. It's the beginning of the tragic hero journey. It starts off as the hero status which Oedipus has right now because he defeated the sphinx.

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A. S, 2
B. "In this way he was raised, by the very qualities that ultimately wrought his ruin, to the height from which he fell" pg 3
C. The reason of this is because a man told him that he's not the true son of Polybus so he went to the oracle at Delphi to learn the truth which lead him to believe that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother so he runs away and never returns to Corinth. Which lead him the way of ruin because where three roads meet is where he kills his real father Laius which lead him to fulfill the first part of the prophecy. Thebes was in crisis and Oedipus solved the Sphinx and saves Thebes which lead him to marry his mother and Oedipus became king and he did everything in his power to bring peace and prosperity back to the troubled land.

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A. S, 1
B.  " The man who sees but one side of a matter, and straightway, driven on by his uncontrolled emotions, acts in accordance with that imperfect vision, meets a fate most pitiful and terrible, in accordance with the great laws which the gods have made"  pg 4
C. Oedipus only looked at one side of each situation he in countered which lead him to his own emotions of the situation which lead him to do things that made him into a tragic hero because of his imperfect vision.

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A. S, 3
B.  "The tragic hero is a man who fails to attain happiness, and fails in such a way that his career excites, not blame, but fear and pity in the highest degree"  pg 2
C. Oedipus can't obtain happens because of the oracle fearing him and all the bad decisions he's making because he sees one side of the matter and he fails because he killed his father and marries his mother and ends by binding himself because he doesn't want to see anymore because of what he has done.

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Barstow, M. (2009, September). Oedipus Rex as the ideal tragic hero of Aristotle. Retrieved from http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/ahallaq/files/2011/10/ideal-tragic-hero.pdf

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A. P , 6
B. “I think that I myself may be accursed by my own ignorant edict” pg 335 lines 700-701 (downfall)
C. This is when he realizes that his wishes about finding the killer of Laius will come back to him because he was the one who did it. Its the down fall of the tragic hero's journey.

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Asuamah A. (2012). The tragic hero of the classical period. Retrieved from
http://ir.csuc.edu.gh:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/504/The%20Tragic%20Hero%20of%20the%20Classical%20Period.pdf?sequence=1

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A. S, 4
B. "Its greatness lies in the combination of a faultlessly articulated plot with the profoundest insight in human motive and circumstances. Formally a story of the impact of quite fortuitous mischance upon a man of no exceptional fault of virtues, it lays bare with a ruthless sincerity worthy of its own protagonist, the pitfalls lying about the paths of man into which thos very exceptional faults or virtues may at a touch over balance him, at the bidding of some incalculable chance, and out of which he must raise himself and be ennobled" pg 16
C.  Oedipus is trying to overcome his destiny of kiilling his father and marrying his mother. His trying to confornt them and solve them. The Gods are to blame becasuse they are trying to get Oedipus to fall.

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A. S, 5
B.  "Aristotle's hamartia is simply a going wrong when the character is either ignorant of the particular wrong he is committing, or act in the heat of passion. Under these circumstances Greek society prescribes appropriate sanctions against the culprit to right the wrong done. A tragic hero, by hamartia brings a dislocation of the natural order." pg 16
C.  Oedipus's actions go wrong throughout the play and his actions bring a blindness of perception. the elements of fear and pity throughout the play is a key part of a tragic hero because it wants you feel pity about the character and also fear which is a key to tragedy.