Do you mean in the play oedipus rex (oedipus the king) by sophocles? is this the part about her suicide? the play isn't split into episodes or acts originally and i've only read the original greek. anyway, she killed herself because she could bear the burden of what she had done. she had slept with her own son, who also murdered her husband/his father. also, she had given birth to oedipus' children. so she then realized her children were the product of incest. she killed herself because she loved both her son and husband dearly and could not bear to face the fact that the prophecy turned out to be true.

Which of the following steps is not part of analyzing a poem? a. explore the poet's background. b. explore the theme. c. examine form and structure. d. examine language patterns.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

You were given an exceptional iq so obviously you made valedictorian to change the tone of the sentence from resentful to complimentary, without changing the central meaning, which word most needs to be replaced? o a. exceptional o b. valedictorian o c. given o d. obviously