Research Paper:  Thesis & Outline

Thesis: Sophocles’ Oedipus exemplifies Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero due to his background, his character flaws, and his fate that display throughout this classic Greek tragedy.

Outline:

1.      Setting

A.    Date: 500BC- 400BC

B.     Location: Thebes, Ancient Greece

2.      Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero

A.    Greek and tragedy

B.     Tragic hero

3.      Sophocles Oedipus’s background

A.    Oedipus’s name

B.     Kinship

4.      Oedipus’s character

A.    Hamartia

B.     Hubris

C.     Catharsis

5.      Theme (why the play was written)

A.    Fate

B.     Pain and suffering

Bibliography

Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker. 1998. Oedipus at Thebes : Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCOhost (accessed October 12, 2017).

HAQUE, Md. Ziaul; KABIR CHOWDHURY, Fahmida. The Concept of Blindness in Sophocles' King Oedipus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature. (Date accessed: 13 Oct. 2017)

Fagles Robert, SOPHOCLES: The Three Theban Plays Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. New York: Penguin Group Inc., 1984.

Zachrisson, Anders.“Oedipus the king: Quest for self-knowledge – denial of reality. Sophocles’ vision of man and psychoanalytic concept formation.” The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 94 (2012): 313-331.

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