POLITICAL+ANALYSTS+2

=__**Political Analysts**__= Dylan Fowler, Meghan Heimbouch, Johnny Kuhn, Max Mescall


 * Oedipus The King- Part 1**

__//Oedipus killing his father and gaining the throne//__ Can be compared to: -Cleopatra killed her family to gain the throne of Egypt -Romulus killed his brother Remus for the rule of Rome
 * Cleopatra
 * Romulus

__//Oedipus gaining the throne by being a hero//__ Can be compared to: -Many American presidents were war heroes and became presidents
 * Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington

__//Priest; Lines 13 to 65//__ -The country was in turmoil and needed a leader -Rome had been burnt to the grown and literally needed to be rebuilt -Germany was at a low after WW1 and needed a strong leader -The country was at a low, but rallied together and prevailed
 * The Great Depression
 * Burning of Rome
 * Hitler and the Nazi's
 * After the 9/11 attacks
 * Our political analysts group was in great turmoil and needed the return of our fearless leader, Johnny

__//Creon; Lines 655 to 669//__ //Consider, first, if you think any one would choose to rule and fear rather than rule and sleep untroubled by a fear if power were equal in both cases. I, at least, I was not born with such a frantic yearning to be a king-but to do what kings do. An so it is with every one who has learned wisdom and self-control. As it stands now, the prizes are all mine-and without fear. But if I were the king myself, I must do much that went against the grain. How should despotic rule seem sweeter to me than painless power and an assured authority? I am not so besotted yet that I want other honors than those that come with profit.// Can be compared to: -Kings and nobility were usually born, you were typically not made one -The Nobles of Medival Europe had power and land but little responsibility.
 * Old rituals and customs
 * Nobles of Rennaisance Europe

__//Creon; Lines 655 to 658//__ //Consider, first, if you think any one would choose to rule and fear rather than rule and sleep untroubled by a fear if power were equal in both cases.// Can be compared to: -Creon debated between being a ruler which ruled with fear to one which ruled to please their people. Machiavelli debated this concept during the Renaissance
 * Machiavelli


 * Oedipus The King-Part 2**

__//Jocasta committing suicide; Line 1354 to 1355 and Line 1357 to 1358//__ //Shortest to hear and tell-our glorious queen Jocasta;s dead......By her own hand. The worst of what was done you cannot know. You did not see the sight.// Can be compared to: -Cleopatra, the ruler of Egypt, killed herself -Hitler committed suicide when the Allied troops were quickly advancing
 * Cleopatra
 * Adolf Hitler

__//Oedipus stepping down and leaving, Starts on line 1479//__ Can be compared to: -Nixon resigned rather than be impeached, like Oedipus banished himself rather than stay and be killed
 * Richard Nixon


 * Other References**

__//Incest in the Royal Family//__ Can be compared to: -It was rumored that Emperor Caligula had personal relationships with all three of his daughters.
 * Roman Emperor Caligula


 * Three Quotes From Oedipus**

__Part 1__

Priest; line 54 //"For now this land of ours calls you its savior since you saved it once."//

Chorus; line 295 //"As you have held me to my oath, I speak: I neither killed the king nor can delcare the killer; but since Pheobus set the quest it is his part to tell who the man is."//

Teiresias; line 390 //"Yes? Then I warn you faithfully to keep the letter of your proclamation and from this day forth to speak no word of greeting to these nor me; you are the land's pollution."// (Oedipus is scolding Teiresias in an attempt to try and get him to tell Oedipus what happnened to the King and who is the murderer)

__Part 2__

Second Messanger; line 1360 //"...You'll hear the end of our unlucky Queen. When she came raging into the house she went straight to her marriage bed, tearing her hair with both her hands, and crying upon Laius long dead - Do you remeber, Lauis that night long past which bred a child for us..."//

Second Messanger; line 1365 //"Laius, that night long past which bred a child for us to send you to your death and leave a mother making children with her son?"//

Jacasta; line 726: //"I beg you, Oedipus,trust him in this, spare him for the sake of this his oath to God, for my sake, and the sake of those who stand here."//

Oedipus and the Sphinx critical questions
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