Tragedy is the genre of fiction into which "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.) fits.

Specifically, tragedy refers to an unfortunate turn in, or end to, life. The description fits the above-mentioned played. The story follows the rise and rapid fall of Theban King Oedipus when his present life unfortunately clashes with disturbing revelations from his past.

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That a niece breaks her uncle's law, gets sentenced to death, hangs herself, and is vindicated by the reversal of her uncle's law and by his overthrow is the summary of "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone buries her brother Polyneices. In so doing, she chooses to comply with divine will that all Thebans receive below ground burials. But at the same time, she contradicts the non-burial edict that her uncle King Creon issues regarding the exposure of the bodies of the disloyal Theban dead. She gets caught and is sentenced to death by live burial and starvation. But she hangs herself rather than draw out the death agony. Prince Haemon, Antigone's first cousin and husband-to-be, is distraught when he finds Antigone dead and kills himself with his own sword. Queen Eurydice, Haemon's mother and Creon's wife, kills herself with a sharp knife. Creon loses everything and everyone that gives his life meaning even though he backs down, has Polyneices buried and plans to release Antigone.

It is by talking respectfully to him one on one that Haemon attempts to reason with his father in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Prince Haemon meets with his father, King Creon. He listens to what his father has to say. He links his own opinions with those of the majority in Thebes and with succinct explanations and telling examples. He fails miserably in the face of his father's stubborn narrow-mindedness.

Cithaeron is the mountain on which Oedipus is to be exposed in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. -- 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Cithaeron is a famous mountain outside Thebes. It also is infamous, as a place where children are abandoned by reluctant or scared parents. That is exactly why Oedipus is supposed to die from exposure and hungry wildlife: It is better for child to die than to grow up to his prophesied fate as a criminal who kills his father and a sex offender who marries his mother.

Tragedy elements are that a protagonist has to suffer some kind of separation from his society (e.g., Romeo's banishment); he also has to make some kind of mistake or show bad judgment (e.g., Macbeth listening to the wife). There are usually deaths which more often than not occur at the end of the play in the same way that comedies typically can end in a marriage or a feast.

The Elements:

1-supernatural elements (witches, ghosts)

2-tragic hero: person with noble qualities and a flaw in his character

3-tragic error: some disorder that has been committed against the laws of nature and needs to be corrected.

4-conflict ...with country or with the hero himself

5-revenge ...the hero is usually often revenge or he is being avenged

6-sad ending: the death, downfall or destruction

7-comic relief : some light scenes to relieve the stress of tragic events

8-isolation of main character

last speech of the chorus tells us a person should be remain in his limit and his knowledge is also limited donot struggle to know about his future because human knowledge utter wits flaws

Theban Queen Jocasta comes to make peace between Theban King Oedipus and Theban King Creon. She has personal and professional reasons for her peace making efforts.

Personally, she's related closely to both men. Oedipus is her husband, and Creon her brother.

Professionally, all three are lateral colleagues on the job. All three are involved in a joint power sharing arrangement whereby the rule over Thebes and its citizens is in their three sets of hands. Jocasta realizes that disagreement is disastrous for three people who are close relatives and close colleagues in overlapping personal and work spaces.

Critical and supportive are the respective attitudes of the chorus in regard to Antigone and Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the chorus criticizes Theban Princess Antigone for her disrespectful treatment of King Creon and for her uncontrolled passions. In contrast, they do not criticize Creon for the bullying, insults and threats that typify his interactions with Princess Antigone, Prince Haemon and Teiresias the blind prophet. The chorus members therefore show a consistently critical attitude towards Antigone and a uniformly supportive attitude toward Creon.

Electra Complex is a medical or proper term which means when a daughter in a family, finds her dad sexually attractive.

The term for a son finding his mother attractive is Oedipus Complex.

That he will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother are the prophecies about subsequent Theban King Oedipus. Oedipus' parents, Theban King Laius and Queen Jocasta, receive the first prophecy. They try to prevent its fulfillment by planning to have their three-day-old son die exposed to the weather and wildlife on a hillside.

The grown-up Oedipus receives the second prophecy. He tries to prevent its fulfillment by running away from what he thinks is his hometown of Corinth. But in running away, he kills someone who looks like an elderly version of himself and is old enough to be his father. He then ends up in Thebes, about which he has no memory or knowledge. There, he marries the beautiful, recently widowed Jocasta, who may or may not share a resemblance and who definitely is old enough to be his mother.

And so the prophecies are fulfilled.

A sphinx is a beast with a head of a lion, wings of a great bird, and the torso and head of a woman.

The noun SPHINX:

1. an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

2. (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon