Exam 16: The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles Oedipus Cycle

Antigone, Oedipus's daughter, is at odds with Creon, her uncle, because she insists on giving her father full funeral rites.

Sigmund Freud argued that every male child unconsciously desires to kill his father and marry his mother.

Although she resists her death bravely, Creon condemns Antigone: she becomes the "Bride of Death."

Both Creon and Antigone substitute death for love, though each in a particular way.

When she stands up to Oedipus and opposes his plans, Jocasta behaves in a way which distinguishes her from all other female characters in Greek myth.

Select the title of the first play written by Sophocles about Oedipus.

Sophocles lived through most of what is known as the classical age of Greece.

For her disobedience to Creon's rule, Antigone is buried alive in a cave.

In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus thinks of himself as an innocent victim; in the later play Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles presents him as taking full responsibility for his actions, even though he acted out of ignorance.

Oedipus's own endeavor to find the truth can be compared with the psychoanalytic process.

The first play Sophocles wrote about Oedipus takes place after Oedipus's death.

Why do Oedipus's sons want him to return to Thebes?

Oedipus Rex opens with a description of the plague in Thebes.

Why did Oedipus come to such a tragic end in OedipusRex?

According to Jungian analysis, Oedipus (in Oedipus Rex) enacts the male child's struggle to escape "the Terrible Mother" and find his own male identity.

Sophocles was active in the political life of Athens.

Apollo strikes Thebes with plague in order to punish Oedipus for his sins.

Antigone argues that the gods are a higher authority than the state.

Antigone is a "hero impersonator" in many ways. In which of the following ways does her "heroic" experience not parallel the usual masculine heroic pattern?

In Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus embraces the feminine principle by doing what?