Week 2 Discussion

Background: Queen, Jocasta left the conversation with Oedipus and the messenger when Oedipus’s birth is being explored among them, Jocasta feared that the shepherd will reveal to Oedipus that he is the son of Laius. After that, an old man form Thebes came into the plot.  The messenger disclosed to […]

I chose chorus lines, 181-185.  The chorus speaks, “What is the sweet spoken word of God from the Shrine of Pytho rich in gold that has come to glorious Thebes? I am stretched on the rack of doubt, and terror and trembling hold my heart, O Delian Healer, and I […]

In the story oedipus the king play by Sophocles I have used the lines 265-270 “Upon the murderer I invoke this curse whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom!”. Oedipus called the people to […]

I chose the chorus in lines 471-474 which says “We look at this man’s words and yours, my king, and we find both have spoken them in anger. we need no angry words but only thought how we may best hit the god’s meaning to us.” in this point of […]

I chose lines 1399-1408. The chorus says, “Time who sees all has found you out against your will; judges your marriage accursed, begetter and begot at one in it. O child of Laius, would I had never seen you. I weep for you and cry a dirge of lamentation. To […]

“The Lesson” is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara that revolves around African American children from Harlem, exposed to a new world beyond their impoverished community by a volunteer teacher, Miss Moore. She takes them to an exotic toy store on Fifth Avenue, mainly for whites. This trip is […]