OTK BP2

Question 1

BP2 WAT IS IT ABOUT.

Answer 1

Sophocles critiques hubris and impulsive rule as moral failures.

Question 2

BP2 Q1

Answer 2

“You… you’re blind” – Stichomythia = blindness = early hamartia

Question 3

BP2 Q2

Answer 3

“You dare say that!” – Antilabe = Oed’s emotional hubris

Question 4

BP2 Q3

Answer 4

“Pride breeds the tyrant” – Chorus = moral law vs tyrannous rule

Question 5

BP2 Q4

Answer 5

It’s all chance” – Jocasta rejects aletheia → despair

Question 6

BP2 Q5

Answer 6

“My curse… on myself” – Oed’s emotional oath = ironic hamartia