Honor, Courage, and Pride Questions

Please use specific evidence from Oedipus the King to answer these questions.  Make sure you quote the play.

1) How can different perspectives affect the reader's understanding of honor, courage, or pride?

2) What motivates an individual to be honorable, courageous, or proud?

3) When characters decide to be honorable, courageous, or proud, what internal and/or external conflicts do they face?

4) What are the outcomes of acts of honor, courage, or pride?

5) How are characters ultimately affected by honor, courage, or pride?

We will work on the CFA in class tomorrow and the next day.

Oedipus the King assignment

Since we have finished reading Oedipus the King, here is an assignment:

Find six quotations from Oedipus the King that show dramatic irony.  For each one, copy the quotation and explain how it shows there is dramatic irony at work during that part of the play. Please take note of page numbers.

Here is a pdf of the play.  

Today is the last Book Club Meeting

Journals are due today.