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Essay Instructions: Oedipus the King:

1. Explore the relationship in Oedipus between fate and free will. Include a discussion of the role of the gods and the relationship between Oedipus and the gods.

2. "Truth has made me strong." Discuss whether this statement is true, partially true, partially false, or false, according to the life of one or more of the characters in Oedipus. How does "truth" figure into the play, and what are its effects on those who speak it? Be sure to quote specific examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Examine the role of Tiresias the Seer. What is significant about his blindness and the language of seeing and blindness associated with him? What is the relationship between Tiresias and Oedipus?

Other Requirements:

-Require at least one outside critical source(book or scholarly journal article, no internet-based sources)in the analysis part. Do not use Wikipedia as an academic source for this essay.
-Typed and double spaced, using 12 font.

Essay Instructions: Oedipus the King
Four page critique analyzing the elements of play. Where are the various elements of plot placed: inciting incident, point of attack, exposition, rising action, turning point, falling action, climax, anti-climax, & denouement. Explain why it is it climatic or episodic dramatic structure? Why is this play considered a tragedy and not a drama?

Essay Instructions: ?Oedipus the King?
Short essay on "why" this is a tragedy containing all the necessary elements of drama: plot, characters, thought (theme), diction (language), music (auditory aspects), and spectacle (visual spectacle).

Essay Instructions: Quotations from the book have to be included in the essay.
Sources are quotations from books. "Oedipus the king", "In the American Grain", "Metamorphoses"

Choose one of the three topics:

1. Are the stories recounted in "In the American Grain" mythology? Does William Carlos Williams' use of these stories constitute a new kind of civic mythology? You will want to advance a theory of mythology in this paper and perform close readings of the text in order to make a strong argument.

2. How does Oedipus The King formulate the tension between free will and determinism? To what extent does it ultimately suggest human fate is a product of free will? In this question, you will want to consider to what extent Oedipus' insistence on knowing the truth or his final acts reclaim his freedom.

3. We discussed the ways in which Ovid's Metamorphoses ateoverwhelming and sometimes chaotic, but we also noted that the poet emerges as a new kind of hero by the end of the text. Does Ovid's Metamorphoses function, despite its some what dizzying structure, to fulfiIl one of the main purposes of mythology: to orgarize reality around the figure of the hero?
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