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Backdrop of raised platform |
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First Recognized playwright |
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Alternating single forms of dialogue |
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the point of recognition of truth "ah ha" |
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The arrosal of pity and fear in the audience and the purging of these emotions |
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action that takes place before the play opens |
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the audience knows something the character doesn't |
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What happened in the imagination told from stage |
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a character that has opposite traits of another |
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sexual relations between family members |
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the inperfection that causes the protagonist's downfall |
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opposite of what's expected |
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unity of place, action, time |
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all events have one place, plot, and day |
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Dispense advice, reflect the feelings of the audience, set the mood, add color, important to the rhythmic movement of the play |
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Sophocles view on man's place |
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Man must accept responsibility for his acts Reverence and humility led to human happiness Oedispus sinned by trying to put himself above the gods' divine will Man has free will but exists within a system of limitations |
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a man who is highly renowned and pwosperous bu tone who isnot pre eminetlu cirtupus and just whose mismfortune by vice or depravity but by some error of jusgment frailty |
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