In Sophocles's Greek tragedy Oedipus the King, Oedipus discovers that he has unknowingly killed his biological father and marrie
d his birth mother. The horror of this truth causes Jocasta, Oedipus’s wife/mother, to hang herself and Oedipus to stab himself in the eyes. What element of Greek tragedy do these final two acts give expression to?
1 catastrophe
2 hamartia
3 anagnorisis
4 catharsis
5 hubris
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(However, I believe it could also be have, if you are referring to it in the present context).
