- Read up to line 1482 (“I wish you had never known”).
- Monitor your thoughts and feelings towards Oedipus. Be ready to trace back how you feel at various moments in the course of his investigations and its aftermath. Use post-it notes or marginal notes (using different color markers could also work–red for anger, blue for pity, yellow for fear etc.).
- Memorize all vocabulary words assigned previously, including the literary terms hamartia, anagnorisis, peripeteia, hubris, eleos, phobos, mimesis, and catharsis and stichomythia.
- Here is more information on Sigmund Freud’s famous “Oedipus Complex Theory”: http://psychology.about.com/od/oindex/g/def_oedipuscomp.htm
Watch the video on the Moirai and take notes.