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Oedipus Rex, Scene 2
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Directions: As we read aloud as a class, take notes and write your responses for each of the outlined sections that are listed below.
Dramatic Irony = A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the
character
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Plot Questions
According to Oedipus, why is Creon the
fool?
How does Oedipus refer to Teiresias? Why?
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What became of the enquiry? Is this proof
for Oedipus of his own innocence? Explain.
What is Creon’s reason for not desiring the
throne?
Summary using Handmade Thinking
Example of dramatic irony
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Plot Questions
According to Jocasta, what is shameful?
Summary using Handmade Thinking
Example of dramatic irony
Oedipus says, “You are aware, I hope, that
what you say means death for me or exile
at least.” What did Choragos say in
response? What is Oedipus’s meaning?
Directions: Fill in the blanks to help complete the plotline for Scene 2.
Oedipus’s wife, _______________, enters and convinces Oedipus that he should neither _________ nor _____________ Creon, though the reluctant king
remains convinced that Creon is guilty. Creon leaves, and the Chorus reassures Oedipus that it will always be loyal to him. Oedipus explains to Jocasta
how ________________ condemned him, and Jocasta responds that all prophets are false. As proof, she offers the fact that the Delphic oracle told
_______________ he would be ___________________ by his ________________, while actually his son was cast out of Thebes as a baby and Laius was
murdered by a band of thieves. Her narrative of his murder, however, sounds familiar to Oedipus, and he asks to hear more.
Jocasta tells him that _____________ was killed at a __________________ crossroads, just before Oedipus arrived in _______________. Oedipus,
stunned, tells his wife that he may be the ___________________________. He tells Jocasta that, long ago, when he was the prince of
__________________, he heard at a banquet that he was not really the son of the king and queen, and so went to the oracle of __________________,
which did not answer him but did tell him he would murder his father and sleep with his mother. Hearing this, Oedipus fled from home, never to return. It
was then, on the journey that would take him to Thebes, that Oedipus was confronted and harassed by a group of travelers, whom he killed in selfdefense, at the very _______________ where ____________ was killed.
Hoping that he will not be identified as _______________ murderer, Oedipus sends for the ______________________ who was the only man to survive
the attack. Oedipus and Jocasta leave the stage, and the Chorus enters, announcing that the world is ruled by destiny and denouncing prideful
____________ who would defy the __________________. At the same time, the ________________ worries that if all the _______________ and
oracles are wrong—if a proud man can, in fact, triumph—then the gods may not rule the ________________ after all. Jocasta enters from the palace to
offer a branch wrapped in wool to Apollo.