Analytic Project: Talk Show of Oedipus the King
Group Members
Group Member
Gaby
Character(s)
Talk Show Host
Gwen
Tiresias
Eduardo
Oedipus
Analysis of Events
Event(s)
When Tiresias tells
Oedipus that he is the
one who killed Lauis.
When Oedipus finds
out what he did and
then stabs his eyes out
with Jocastas Pin.
When Oedipus curses
Tiresias blindness.
Analysis
This event is full of confusion. Oedipus
does not believe Tiresias at all because
of the indirect way he was telling him,
dropping hints and using riddles. After
Tiresias tells him the truth as it is,
Oedipus gets angry and curses his
blindness.
This event was very dramatic, because
Jocasta had killed herself and was lying
dead. Oedipus sees her like this and
wants to be “blinded from all the
cruelty in the world” so he decided to
poke his eyes out.
After Tiresias told Oedipus that he was
the murderer, Oedipus got really angry
and cursed his blindness. Tiresias
reacted just saying that he was only
cursing himself, I think this was very
dramatic and indicates a little of
foreshadowing to the end of the book
when Oedipus actually turns blind.
Analysis of Characters
Character
Oedipus
Creon
Jocasta
Tiresias
Analysis
Protagonist of the story. He marries his mother and kills
his father. He is a man of rapid action, is always aware
of what is going on. Is unable to see the truth. Always
one step ahead of everyone but has a dangerous side
to him.
Brother of Jocasta. Plays a pretty big role in the story. He
represents the real power of human law and the need
to have an orderly stable society.
Is Oedipus’s wife and mother and Creon’s sister. She is
constantly trying to calm down Oedipus, telling him not
to worry about the accusations made. When she finds
out the truth about Oedipus she is devastated and kills
herself.
Has a very special gift, because although he is blind he
can see more than others. He is the one that tells
Oedipus that he killed his father. Tiresias is constantly
trying to show people the truth but no one ever believes
him at first.
Literary Devices
Literary Device Identified
Foreshadowing
& Symbolism
Symbolism
Irony
Theme
Reference in Talk Show
The time in the book when Oedipus curses Tiresias
blindness and Tiresias tells Oedipus that he was only
cursing himself indicates Symbolism and
Foreshadowing. Symbolism because Oedipus could
see, but he was truly blind to seeing things with more
depth and couldn’t see the truth in things.
Foreshadowing because later on in the book Oedipus
pokes his eyes out and ends up actually being blind.
Oedipus’s blindness represents how he could not see
the truth and did not believe.
It is ironic that Tiresias was blind, yet he could see the
future and the truth in things. While Oedipus could only
see the visual things and couldn’t the truth and did not
look into the depth of the things.
The theme of the story is the Willingness to Ignore the
truth, but also is that Faith is faith and it will happen no
matter what someone does to prevent it.