Final Exam
The following works will be on your final exam:
A Christmas Carol
Oedipus the King
Night
Romeo and Juliet
Also, study your notes on paper writing.
As for your star quotes, below are 17 that you need to know (only 15 will appear on your final).
Oedipus the King
1. “This day will bring your birth and your destruction.”
2. "Revealed at last, brother and father both / to the children he embraces, to his mother / son and husband both – he sowed the loins / his father sowed, he spilled his father’s blood!”
3. You, / you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! / Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, / blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind / from this hour on! Blind in the darkness – blind!”
4. "I curse myself as well…if by any chance / he proves to be an intimate of our house, / here at my hearth, with my full knowledge, / may the curse I just called down on him strike me!”
5. "I curse myself as well…if by any chance / he proves to be an intimate of our house, / here at my hearth, with my full knowledge, / may the curse I just called down on him strike me!”
6. “O god - / all come true, all burst to light! / O light – now let me look my last on you! / I stand revealed at last – cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, / cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands!"
7. “But my spirit / grieves for the city, for myself and all of you. / I wasn’t asleep, dreaming. You haven’t wakened me - / I have wept through the nights, you must know that, / groping, laboring over many paths of thought.”
8. “I thought it wrong, my children, to hear the truth / from others, messengers. Here I am myself - / you all know me, the world knows my fame: / I am Oedipus”
9. “Oh, but if there is any blood-tie / between Laius and this stranger…/ what man alive more miserable than I? / More hated by the gods? I am the man / no alien, no citizen welcomes to his house, / law forbids it – not a word to me in public, / driven out of every hearth and home. / And all these curses I – no one but I / brought down these piling curses on myself!”
10. “You with your precious eyes, / you’re blind to the corruption of your life, / to the house you live in, those you live with - / who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing / you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, / and the double lash of your mother and your father’s curse / will whip you from this land on day, their football / treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding / your eyes that now can see the light!”
Romeo and Juliet
Study the 7 short answer star quotes from your R&J test.