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What is a one paragraph plot summary of the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
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Write a one paragraph plot summary of the first half of Oedipus Rex and submit it to your teacher?
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Plot summary of the first half of Oedipus Rex?
In the first part of Oedipus Rex, a plague is rampaging in the City of Thebes. Oedipus sends for an oracle. The oracle says the plague will end when the murder of the former King is killed or sent away. A search is on for the murderer. Oedipus himself is accused of the murder. As the plot unfolds, Oedipus begins to worry that he may actually be the murderer. Oedipus later learns that he is the son of the former King. He discovers that he has killed his father and married his mother (the queen).
Who is Oedipus' brother?
No one is Theban King Oedipus' brother. Oedipus is an only child from the first marriage of Theban Queen Jocasta to Theban King Laius. But there are children from her second marriage to her son Oedipus. So his daughters Antigone and Ismene, and his sons Eteocles and Polyneices, are also his half-sisters and half-brothers.
What does Oedipus suspect by the end of the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
That he may be Laius' killer is what Oedipus suspects by the end of the first half of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus must end the pestilence in Thebes by identifying and punishing the guilty in the unsolved murder of King Laius, his royal predecessor and his wife Jocasta's first husband. His first step in solving the killing is consulting with Teiresias the blind prophet, wisest of all Thebans and vast storehouse of present, past and future knowledge. But Teiresias charges Oedipus with that crime and more. In collecting details about the crime scene from Jocasta, Oedipus believes that Teiresias may be speaking the truth.
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Are Creon and Oedipus half brothers?
No, Theban Kings Creon and Oedipus aren't half brothers. Instead, their relationship is one of brothers-in-law and of uncle to nephew. They're brothers-in-law, because Oedipus is married to Creon's sister, Theban Queen Jocasta. Their relationship also is one of uncle to nephew, because Oedipus actually and unknowingly is his wife's son from her first marriage to Oedipus' father, deceased Theban King Laius.
Who is first to tell Oedipus that he is the killer of his own father in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Teiresias is first to say that Oedipus is his father's killer in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet says that King Oedipus is the killer of the immediately preceding Theban sovereign, Laius. Oedipus cannot believe himself to be the killer of someone whom he never remembers meeting. In response to Oedipus' insults and threats, Teiresias finally says that Oedipus is the killer of his own father, the husband of his father's wife and the half-brother of his own children.
What happens to Oedipus' queen in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Suicide is what happens to Oedipus' queen in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Jocasta is Theban King Oedipus' queen. In the last part of the play, she correctly deduces that Oedipus is her son, the killer of her first husband, King Laius, and the half-brother of his children with her. The knowledge causes her to hang herself with the threads from her own robes.
What does Oedipus know and suspect by the end of the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
That he kills someone at the same place as Laius dies is what Oedipus knows and that he may be Laius' killer is what Oedipus suspects by the end of the first half of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles(495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus must identify and punish the guilty in the murder of his royal predecessor, King Laius. In the course of the investigation, Oedipus learns that the crime scene is the very Delphi-Daucis crossroads where he himself commits a similar crime to a similar person at about the same time. He therefore begins to suspect that Teiresias the blind prophet is correct in accusing him of being Laius' killer.
What does Oedipus know in the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
That a pestilence afflicts Thebes, that the cause is Laius' unsolved murder and that he himself may be a murder suspect is what Oedipus knows in the first half of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus knows that the death place of his royal predecessor, King Laius, is the same as where he himself commits a crime at about the same time. He knows that Laius resembles one of Oedipus' murder victims. He knows that the sole survivor of the attack leading to Laius' death can be brought in for questioning. He knows that Teiresias the blind prophet accuses him of being Laius' killer.
What is the plot in the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
A pestilence afflicts Thebes, it can be ended only with punishing King Laius' killer, and Oedipus may be the prime suspect is the plot to the first half of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Delphic oracle advises that the pestilence in Thebes will end with the identification and punishment by execution or exile of the guilty in King Laius' murder. Oedipus, Thebes' current king, heads the investigation and tries to gather clues to a 20-year-old murder. He looks to his royal advisor, Teiresias the blind prophet, for help. But Teiresias stuns Oedipus with the treasonous charge that Oedipus is the killer.
What happens in the first half of 'Oedipus Rex'?
The challenges of what to do about the pestilence and how to identify and punish the guilty in Laius' murder are what happens in the first half of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the priest of Zeus publicly meets about the pestilence with Theban King Oedipus, who promises to take care of things. Creon, Oedipus' brother-in-law and royal colleague, shares the Apolline oracle's identification of the unsolved mystery of Theban King Laius as the cause and of the identification and punishment of the guilty as the solution. Oedipus does not get cooperation from his people so he turns to Teiresias the blind prophet for clues as to the identity of the guilty.But Teiresias identifies Oedipus as the killer, and Oedipus gets into a fight with Creon, whom he suspects of getting Teiresias to make such seemingly untrue, unprovoked charges. Jocasta, Oedipus' wife and Laius' widow, breaks up the fight and tries to help Oedipus with the little that she knows of her first husband's murder. The first half ends with Oedipusgetting upset because the location and circumstances of Laius' murder are similar to those of a murder that he himself commits before showing up at Thebes and marrying Jocasta.
