Compassion and Sacrifice

Compassion and Sacrifice

Directions: Using literature from this unit, write a well-developed essay explaining its specific ideas concerning compassion and sacrifice. Discuss characters, events, literary devices, and/or genre-specific vernacular. Use specific textual evidence and edit your work carefully.

Guidelines:

Choose literature that best relates to your understanding of the theme of compassion and sacrifice.
Keep the following essential questions in mind:

1) How can perspective affect the reader’s understanding of compassion and/or sacrifice?

2) What motivates characters/individuals to be compassionate and/or to sacrifice?

3) When characters/individuals decide to be compassionate and/or to sacrifice, what internal and/or external conflicts might they face?

4) What are the outcomes of acts of compassion and/or sacrifice?

5) How are characters/individuals ultimately affected by compassion and/or sacrifice?

Oedipus

We have finished reading Oedipus Rex.  Here are is what we are working on today:

1.  Make a plot diagram for the events in Oedipus Rex.  Make sure you include elements such as rising action/complication, climax, and falling action.  Also be sure to include his interactions with other characters and things he learns about himself.
2.  Make a timeline of event in Oedipus’ life, from his birth to his final action in the play.