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enviromental course

1. The Plantation : The essential details of the story, such as the major characters, setting, and any other details that are crucial to the plot's progress In Oedipus Rex: Thebes is the setting of the story Oedipus, the ruler of Thebes, is introduced. A mythical beast with a human head, a lion's body, and wings, the Sphinx, threatened the city until he arrived years before and saved it. He is adored by everyone in the city and is regarded as the city's strongest and wisest man for his bravery.

2. The point of attack : The point of attack is the moment when the main conflict of the story is introduced. In the case of Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex ,“: The point of attack is when Oedipus learns of the plague that has struck his city, Thebes, and sets out to find a solution to it. As Creon comes from Delphi's Oracle with word that Laius's murder caused the epidemic, and that Oedipus must find the murder to end this epidemic that is the point of attack

3. The Conflict : Conflicts in literature are delineated as external -- man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society -- or internal -- man vs. self . The conflicts that was represented in this play : 1- Oedipus Against the Gods 2- Oedipus Against All 3- Oedipus Against Himself 4- The Wife/Mother's Conflict

4. 1- Oedipus Against the Gods: Man vs. Nature conflict The Chorus warns him that Thebes, the nation he governs, is perish due to an insult to Apollo and that with Theban dead, "the murky domain of Pluto is full-fed." Oedipus starts a fresh fight by pledging to "avenge this wrong to Thebes and the deity ."

5. 2- Oedipus Against All: 1-Man vs. Man Conflict : When the prophet Tiresias informs Oedipus about a man of blood who has killed his own father and married his own mother. As the prophet says, "thou art the man, thou the accursed polluter of this land," Oedipus furiously rejects him 2-Man and Society Conflict: As Oedipus disobeys Creon and the Chorus, the action's central conflict develops into a struggle

6. 3-Oedipus Against Himself: Motivated by his sense of superiority, Oedipus confronts Jocasta about a kid she threw out before questioning a herdsman about a newborn he found abandoned He tries both to discover the truth and to reject it. The shocking response compels him to realize that he is both his mother's unaware spouse and his father's murderer, which forces him into blindness, exile, and a cathartic climax.

7. 4- The Wife/Mother's Conflict: When she describes leaving the infant Oedipus, who is foretold to bring about destruction, she is profoundly divided with herself. She is also shocked to discover that she has married and slept that abandoned son. She hangs herself after fleeing the scene because she can no longer handle the conflict.