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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1217764.html[return][return]It's really good. This is a play dating from about 430 BC, and we all know the story in advance, so I wondered how fresh it could possibly seem, but I really enjoyed reading it and would love to see it on stage. [return][return]The interest is the interplay between the three main characters, Oedipus himself, Jocasta and her brother Cleon, as the story is unfolded to them by a succession of walk-ons (Tiresias, the messenger, the shepherd, etc) - although the plot covers the whole of Oedipus' life, the setting of the play respects the unities and takes place over a few hours or possibly days.[return][return]Sophocles uses the plot as a framework to meditate on fate and predestination (where his argument if largely of historical interest) and also to speculate on different kinds of sight and blindness (and here I think his thoughts are timeless; we can substitute all kinds of dogmas about planning and professionalism for the way he writes about prophecy). [return][return]I was reading the 1909 translation by Sir George Young, which is decent enough, though I can imagine it being done more fluently in today's idiom."
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
how much is there to say here, really! read the theban plays in college but my memory of them is very hazy and i’ve been meaning to do a reread for ages. hopefully i’ll get to the other two soon, i’m mostly here for antigone if i’m being totally honest. not going to give any of these a star rating, like.......it’s sophocles
I taught this story for the first time this year. And my students really liked the IDEA of the story, that is, the plot. But the actual reading...not something they enjoyed much. And I can understand why. A lot of lamenting (a lot to lament about) and not a ton of action. Probably because this story 2500 years old. But it's lasted this long and I'm assuming my students like/dislike won't change the popularity of Sophocles.
read for class; unrated
definitely an interesting play. sense of something hurtling towards destruction but being unable to stop it.
definitely an interesting play. sense of something hurtling towards destruction but being unable to stop it.
read this for assigned reading in high school. my ap lit class full of seniors had a whole debate over if jocasta KNEW oedipus was her son beforehand, it was crazy.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes