Working With Literature
1. Reading: Sometimes individually, sometimes as a group/aloud2. Annotation: Pre-discussion (come prepared with) and post-discussion (taking notes during the discussion)
3. Discussion/seminar: you need insight from other people to understand the literature; it also answers questions and develops ideas
4. Written response: use complete sentences and develop your ideas
5. Extensions: connecting literature to outside ideas
Once upon a time...
- Laios (King of Thebes): seduced, abducted , and killed the son of neighboring king after a state visit.
- Violating many laws of the gods'
- Laios is cursed because he violated the gods' laws
- Killed by his own son, who will then marry his mother and have four kids with her.
- Laios attempts to avoid his fate, and of course, fails.
- His attempt is what makes his fate come true
- You cannot avoid your fate
- Oedipus (Laios' son): Kills his fathers (Laios) and marries his mother, has four kids:
- Sons: Polynices and Eteocles
- Daughters: Antigone and Ismene
- Oedipus discovers this and gouges his eyes out and he is exiled.
- Because Oedipus has been exiled, his sons agree to share rule of Thebes in his place.
- Eteocles becomes king for the first 10 years
- Polynices ostracized (voted out of society for 10 years)
- Regardless of the version of the story, Polynices comes back to take control and evades
- Comes with 7 Argire armies
- Eteocles and Polynices kill each other
- And this leads us to Antigone
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