{"id":10723,"date":"2023-03-03T02:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T07:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2023-03-03T02:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T07:27:35","slug":"toribio-mendez-discussion-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/2023\/03\/03\/toribio-mendez-discussion-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Toribio Mendez Discussion 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the play \u201cOedipus the King\u201d by Sophocles, the author uses \u201clanguages enhanced by varying beauties\u201d referenced by Aristotle. Sophocles uses this sophisticated language throughout the whole play but it is most prevalent when the chorus made up of old men from the city of Thebes speak. A short passage that stood out to me can be found at line 1375 to 1385 when the chorus says, \u201c&#8230;Luckless Oedipus, whom of all men I envy not at all.\u201d Followed by, \u201cIn as much as he shot his bolt beyond the others and won the prize of happiness complete\u2014 O Zeus\u2014and killed and reduced to nought the hooked taloned maid of the riddling speech, standing a tower against death for my land; hence he was called my king and hence was honored the highest of all honors; and hence he ruled in the great city of Thebes. But now whose tale is more miserable?\u201d Who the people of Thebes once saw a light during dark times was revealed to be a man with a sick past and poor judgment. I enjoyed this passage because it shows that the residents of Thebes looked at Oedipus\u2019s situation with pity rather than disgust and anger, contrary to what Oedipus thought.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the play \u201cOedipus the King\u201d by Sophocles, the author uses \u201clanguages enhanced by varying beauties\u201d referenced by Aristotle. Sophocles uses this sophisticated language throughout the whole play but it is most prevalent when the chorus made up of old men from the city of Thebes speak. A short passage that stood out to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-6-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}