Setting and Context (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Single unchanging location: palace forecourt at Thebes

All action in one calamitous day (dawn to dusk)

Moral pollution manifesting as physical disease

Moment of recognition or discovery

Wheeled platform revealing interior scenes

c.429 BCE Athens, during plague & Peloponnesian War

Tragic error/flaw; excessive pride (hubris)

Where Oedipus killed Laius; fate's intersection

Where infant Oedipus was exposed to die

Emotional purging of pity & terror tragedy produces