Oedipus the King and Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio both deal with heroes facing problems and responding to solve them.
In Oedipus the King, a plague has stricken Thebes. Oedipus seeks the oracle's advice and interrogates citizens to discover that he has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves the city.
In Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, Serapio is accused of breaking the law by having a child. He tries to prove his innocence by claiming the witnesses lied and that the chest contained nothing important. However, it is found to hold evidence of his
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Oedipus the King and Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio both deal with heroes facing problems and responding to solve them.
In Oedipus the King, a plague has stricken Thebes. Oedipus seeks the oracle's advice and interrogates citizens to discover that he has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves the city.
In Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, Serapio is accused of breaking the law by having a child. He tries to prove his innocence by claiming the witnesses lied and that the chest contained nothing important. However, it is found to hold evidence of his
Oedipus the King and Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio both deal with heroes facing problems and responding to solve them.
In Oedipus the King, a plague has stricken Thebes. Oedipus seeks the oracle's advice and interrogates citizens to discover that he has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves the city.
In Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, Serapio is accused of breaking the law by having a child. He tries to prove his innocence by claiming the witnesses lied and that the chest contained nothing important. However, it is found to hold evidence of his
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Oedipus the King and Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio both deal with heroes facing problems and responding to solve them.
In Oedipus the King, a plague has stricken Thebes. Oedipus seeks the oracle's advice and interrogates citizens to discover that he has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves the city.
In Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, Serapio is accused of breaking the law by having a child. He tries to prove his innocence by claiming the witnesses lied and that the chest contained nothing important. However, it is found to hold evidence of his
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Oedipus the King his daughter, he kept on doing his
routine of bringing food for his
Hero’s traits: daughter when Sol was still alive, even though this would cost him punishments. Hero’s circumstances: Serapio is skeptic. When he was being accused of something, he questioned the accusers of what Hero’s Problem: sin and why he was liable for it. A terrible curse has befallen Thebes. Hero’s Circumstances: He was poor Hero’s response to the problem: He had a wife, but then she died Oedipus sends his brother-in-law, giving birth to Sol. Creon, to seek the advice of Sol was her daughter but then Apollo. she died as well. Oedipus commits himself to the She had a chest where he had a discovery and prosecution of doll, pretending that it was her Laius’s murderer. daughter Sol. Oedipus subjects reluctant citizens to questioning, including Hero’s Problem: a blind prophet named Teiresias. He was being accused of having Oedipus questions a messenger a child which was against the law and a shepherd, both tell him he of the federation was abandoned as an infant and He had to keep the people from adopted by a new family. knowing his secret in the chest.
Outcome of the reponse: Hero’s response to the problem:
Jocasta realizes that she is He tried to prove that he has no Oedipus’s mother and that Laius child anymore because his was his father, she kills herself. daughter already died, by saying Oedipus, too, realizes that he that the witnesses were all lying was Laius’s murder and that he’s against him. been married to (and having He tried to lie that there was children with) his mother. In nothing important in the chest. horror and despair, he gouges his eyes out and is exiled from Outcome of the response: Thebes. The ‘tagapagtanong’ and the ‘hukom’ were provoked to Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio question the witnesses’ credibility, but then they opened Hero’s Traits: the chest and found a way to Serapio is family oriented prove that Serapio was spending because he gives utmost money for something else. importance to his late daughter Eventually, he was punished for and wife. To keep the memory of what he has done.