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    The document discusses the key elements and themes of Greek tragedy, including poverty, fate, family, oracles, religion and beliefs, prophets and gods like Zeus. It mentions the emotive language used around plagues, blood, murder, grief and pain. It discusses the pessimistic semantic field and references specific characters like Oedipus, Creon and the chorus leader in one of the most famous Greek tragedies, Oedipus the King, set in 420 BCE in Thebes, Greece.

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    The document discusses the key elements and themes of Greek tragedy, including poverty, fate, family, oracles, religion and beliefs, prophets and gods like Zeus. It mentions the emotive language used around plagues, blood, murder, grief and pain. It discusses the pessimistic semantic field and references specific characters like Oedipus, Creon and the chorus leader in one of the most famous Greek tragedies, Oedipus the King, set in 420 BCE in Thebes, Greece.

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    Oedipus The King

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    The document discusses the key elements and themes of Greek tragedy, including poverty, fate, family, oracles, religion and beliefs, prophets and gods like Zeus. It mentions the emotive language used around plagues, blood, murder, grief and pain. It discusses the pessimistic semantic field and references specific characters like Oedipus, Creon and the chorus leader in one of the most famous Greek tragedies, Oedipus the King, set in 420 BCE in Thebes, Greece.

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    Tragedy

    Theme
    Poverty

    Fate

    Family

    Oracles Structure Greek Play


    Tragedy
    Religion, beifes

    Prophet, gods, Zeus

    Emotive language
    Teiresias
    plague,blood, murder
    Character
    Pessimistic word Semantic Field
    Grief,Pain Oedipus the King Oedipus

    Authorial choices Creon


    Banishment
    The chorus leader

    Parallelism

    In Thebes, Greece
    Plot/context/settings
    420 BCE

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