In Theatre, the Lively Art, about Aristotle, pg. 266 describes six elements of drama that Aristotle notes in his theory of drama, the Poetics (ca. 335 BCE). These elements are: 1) plot, 2) character, 3) thought, 4) language,
5) music, and 6) spectacle.
In your paper, write about how PLOT is expressed in Oedipus Rex.
1) Plot is the ordering of events that build to a climax. Of course, all the plays have plots, but in some of the plays, plot is more prevalent than in others. A play that demonstrates the importance of plot is Oedipus Rex.
The unfolding of events builds suspense that leads to the plucking out of Oedipus's eyes.
Your paper is 3 pages. Be sure you have a thesis statement, claim, main idea--whatever you learned to call it.
Have a point to make--your thesis here is simple: you will state that your play is a good example of the element. Write unified, developed, coherent paragraphs. Unified means about one thing, developed means
examples, coherent means the paragraph makes sense in explaining your thesis.