This PowerPoint helps students to consider the concept of infinity.
Fate And Freewill In Oedipus The King
1. Fate and Freewill in Oedipus The King Presented By Wendy O’Brien, Elinda Peguese, Diane Poland, Nadine Samuel, Jacqueline Scott, Calana Smith, Gwendolyn Terry, and Michael Veach
4. Jocasta’s suicide, references freewill Oedipus gauging out his eyes, references freewill Oedipus request to be exiled to the Cithaeron Mountains, references fate.
7. Oedipus is hailed as the blessed savior of Thebes but his actions brought the plague against Thebes. He ultimately curses himself by openly condemning King Lauis’s murderer.
8. Oedipus can answer the riddle of the Sphinx but could not make heads or tails of his true identity from the Oracles prediction.
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11. THE TRADGEDY OF FATE AND FREEWILL Was the fall of Oedipus as a result of FATE or a consequence of his own FREEWILL? THE END OF KING OEDIPUS PROVOKE EMOTIONS OF FEAR AND PITY. The occasions of self-injury and suicide call to mind the tenacity of life. Oedipus chooses to fight desperately to control the fate spoken over his life. Tragedy~ an action that rises and falls because of a certain error. The innermost religious beliefs of the reader and audiences is challenged thus heightening the feeling of tragedy in Sophocles “Oedipus the King”. Dramatic unraveling of the fate of the idealized Oedipus.
12. Three Secondary SOURCES’ reflection on the theme of “fate and freewill” Robert Fagles (1984) Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_the_King SuziNaiburg, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W., Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 16(4):445-463, 2006 John A. Weigel,“Chapter 5: A Hidden God: Oedipus The King”. Sophocles. Ruth Scodel. Twayne World Author Series 731. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.
13. Credits for the pictures used in this presentation http://fc.sad57.k12.me.us/~Abigail_Asciola/00598B79-00870BAD.0/bloodyeyes.jpg http://www.oddesseytheatres.com http://www.amrep.org/images/oedipus/sophocles.jpg http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4658468/2/istockphoto_4658468-lady-justice.jpg http://www.unitedmaskandparty.com/Masks/images/tragedy_mask_decorated_dowel.JPG http://www.kirkwood.k12.mo.us/parent_student/KHS/arenske/images/oed_sphinx2.jpeg http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ktully/images/Oedipus,%20Antigone/Alter%20Ego%20by%20Robert%20Crockett.jpg http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/aristotle.jpg
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