Write answers to the following questions using Microsoft Word. Your answers should be clear and concise. E-mail your completed paper as an attachment to [email protected]. Include your name, class, and CRN in the header, and title your paper Homework Assignment 3.
1. Discuss the six elements of tragedy as defined by Aristotle.
2. Write a brief plot summary of the play. The summary should include references to the exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action.
3. Define dramatic irony and identify examples of irony in the play.
4. Aristotle tells us that the tragic hero has a flaw, which leads to his or her downfall. What is Oedipus's is tragic flaw? Provide evidence from the play that supports your idea. .
5. Sigmund Freud based his idea of the Oedipal Complex on Sophocles' play. Describe the Oedipal complex and explain how it is related to the play.