Andy? Who is that? Is there a passage to read?
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Characteristics of theme</u></h2><h3>an implicit idea</h3><h3>a universal message</h3>
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Not characteristics of theme</u></h2><h3>
a summary of the story</h3><h3>
a description of a character</h3><h3>
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Answer:
When Oedipus asks Tiresia to tell him who murdered Laius, Tiresia refuses to tell him. He says that he knows the truth but he can't tell him. So, Oedipus gets angry and starts to insult him in order to provoke him to tell the truth. Oedipus also accuses Tiresia of being the murderer and after that Tiresia is compelled to tell him the truth: that Oedipus himself is the curse, that he is the murderer. Oedipus gets even angrier after that and starts to insult Tiresia again and he also accuses him of having conspired with Creon in order to overthrow him.
As we can see, in both cases Oedipus's response is fury and anger, refusal to see the truth and also an attack to Tiresia.
Explanation:
Lonfellow slowly incorporates details of Samson's story, so that the reader can guess who the main character of the poem is. Only at the end does Samson's name appear, revealing the real identity of the slave.
Firstly, Longfellow calls the man the "Israelite of old". This is the first reference to Samson, who was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Then, immediately, he writes "who tore the lion in his path". This was one of Samson's heroic actions for which he was known.
Later he refers to him as being "poor and blind". In his story, Samson's lover, Delilah, betrayed him by sending a Philistine enemy to cut his hair. This man also gauged Samson's eyes, leaving him blind. After this, Samson was "led forth to be apander to Philistine revelry" since he was taken prisoner and taken to Philistine.
Then Longfellow explains that this man destroyed the place where he was being held. It is said that Samsom prayed to God and recovered his strenght, with which he could tear down the collums of his prison, killing himself and everybody else.