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B. In these two cases the poets almost point out a moral, or at least propound both a problem and their solution for it. But this was not necessary, and perhaps not even usual. One of the chief functions of tragedy was to present in concrete form issues that concerned men in their relations with the gods and with one another. In almost every extant play there is behind the individual action a universal situation or problem or question, which is presented in such a ways that we see what it really means for human beings.
B. the issue in Oedipus Red was that Jocasta, Laius, and Oedipus tried to change their fate by not listening to the gods. In the end they both ended horribly. Laius got killed by Odipus, his son, Jocasta married Oedipus (her son). Then she killed herself. Oedipus married Jocasta, his own mother, and ended up gauging out his eys.

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The Greenhaven Press Literary Companion. Readings on Sophocles. San Diego: Greenhouse Press, Inc., 1997. Print.

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Evslin, Bernard. Heroes, Gods And Monsters Of The Greek Myths. New York: Scholastic Magazines, Inc., 1968. Print.

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Evslin, Bernard. Gods, Demigods & Demons An Encyclopedia Of Greek Mythology. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1975. Print.

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A strong pattern of mythological fate is emerging in your primary quotes! 20/20

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A strong pattern of mythological fate is emerging in your primary quotes! 20/20

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B. Delphi: site of Apollo's temple, where the priestesses were noted for their gift of prophecy. Actually, Delphi is system of caves opening out of Mt. Parnassus. This came about by Apollo killing Python. The oracles chewed laurel and went into a steamy trance- their famed prophetic sleep in which they uttered riddles. When solved, these riddles were supposed to contain secrets of the future. (page 50-51)
C. The oracle of Delphi is the most important part of Oedipus Rex. Without them it wouldn't be a story. The oracle's prophecy caused Laius, Jocasta, and Oedipus to do all those horrible things.

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B. With the vast achievement of the epic behind them, and in the sure confidence that its stories were more or less familiar to everyone, they could read more into them, treat them more allusively, and use them to dramatize those issues of life and death which awoke their eager and profound consideration. (page 31
C. People in these times saw plays as an opportunity to use them for a lesson. In this play, Sophocles used the story to teach them not to doubt the gods and to listen to what they have to say.

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B. People saw lessons in the mistakes made by the human characters in the myths and at the same time thought about and clarified their own relationships with the gods. (page 30)
C. Sophocles used his play as an opportunity to give the people of Athens a lesson. It made them think about their lives and how the gods are apart of it.

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B. But there is one man who may detect the criminal. This is Teiresias, this is the holy prophet in whom, alone of all men, truth was born. (lines 81-83).
C. Teiresias comes from mythology. He was transformed into a man to women and then back to a man. Hera and Zeus were in an argument and they needed an outsider to give there opinion. That person needed to be a man and a women at some point. Hera didn't like the answer so she cursed him. Zeus felt bad so he gave him the ability to see in the future. This plays a huge role in the play.

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B. The riddling sphinx´s sond made us deaf to all mysteries but her own. (lines 133-134)
C. The sphinx is a mythical creature that comes from greek mythology. Nobody was able to defeat but Oedipus. Since he killed it, and since the county didnt have a king yet they gave the king spot to Oedipus. So since of that he married jocasta

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B. ¨Then I will tell you what I heard at Delphi. in plain words the god commands ys to expel from the land of Thebes an old defilement we are sheltering. It is a dealthy thing, beyond cure; We must not let it feed upon us longer.¨ (lines 97-102)
C. The oracle told them to figure out the death of Laius. So the only reason they started looking into the death of Laius again is because the oracle, who comes from Apollo, told him to.

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B. "To you, then, Apollo, Lycian lord, since you are nearest, I turn in prayer. Receive these offerings, and grant us deliverance from defilement. Our hearts are heavy with fear when we see our leader distracted, as helpless sailors are terrified by the confusion of their helmsman".
C. In there darkest times they turn to the gods for help. This shows really how desperate Jocasta is. They are depending on the gods.

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B. "I should have done that before now-only, God's will had not been wholly revealed to me."
"But his command is plain: the parricide much be destroyed. I am that evil man."
"that is the sense of it, yes; but as things are, we had best discover clarly what is to be done."
"you wuld learn more about a man like me?"
"you are ready now to listen to the god." (lines 1383-1391)
C. Creon is saying that all of this is happening because Oedipus is not listening to the gods. Since all of this tragedy is happening they are trying to listen to the gods now.

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B. "I went to the shrine at Delphi. The god dismissed my question without reply; He spoke of other things. Some were clear, full of wretchedness, dreadful, unbearable: As, that I should be with my own mother, breed children from whom all men would turn their eyes: and that I should be my father's murderer. I hear all this, and fled". ( lines 745-752)
C. Oedipus abandoned his whole life just because of what the oracle said. His life would of been totally different if he would not of ran.

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B. "An oracle was reported to Laius once that his doom would be death at the hands of his own son. Now, you remember the story: Laius was killed by marauding strangers where three highways meet: But his child had not been three days in this world. Before the King had pierced the baby's ankles and left him to die on a lonely mountainside". (lines 669-678)
C. Laius and Jocasta got a prophecy from an oracle which comes from Apollo saying that there son is going to kill Laius. Since of that prophecy, they tried to kill there son.

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B. "He was murdered: and Apollo commands us now to take revenge upon whoever killed him". (lines 110-111
C. Their whole reason for even finding out who killed the king is because Apollo commands them to.