DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Sophocles, Sexual Eruption, Pentheus
10 Dec 2012
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How people make an entrance or an exit is as significant as what they say. Silence can also be as significant as particular words. At beginning of scene with tiresias, oedipus talks and talks and talks -> shows relative power in scene (what characters think they know and what they know). At beginning of scene, tiresias talks in riddles. Oedipus for his inability to understand the most basic riddle of all (who he really is). Much of scene is framed in paradoxical idea of riddles as such. Thebes because he was the only man with intellectual power to solve the riddle of the sphinx, but tiresias was unable to solve it. At end of scene, oedipus is in silence because he can"t make sense of what tiresias has said. Entrances and exits frame the action we see on the stage.
