Transcript Philoctetes
Philoctetes Dr. Green Disgust cycle • Agreeable to disgust – Smell • identification as disgusting • Avoid the area – Taste and texture • avoid contact • danger of contact – Vomiting • expulsion • segregation and isolation – Immune system attacks • destruction Main Characters • Who are the main characters? Neoptolemus Odysseus Achilles Achilles Heracles Characters • What do they represent? Meaning • Odysseus – wily intelligence • Achilles – ultimate warrior • Neoptolemus – honor vs loyality to the cause • Heracles – son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Alcmene – driven mad by the goddess Hera, so ,in a frenzy, he kills his own children. Prologue • What is the setting? • How is in the Prologue? • What is the situation? Setting • Desolate place where Philoctetes was abandoned. Philoctetes • Why was Philoctetes abandoned? • Where does he live? • How does he support himself? Philoctetes • Bitten by viper • Sign of disgust – Terrible odor • foul stench of foot • foul-smelling – Oozing blood – Crippled – Terrible cries Characters • Odysseus • Neoptolemus Conflict • Why are Odysseus and Neoptolemus on the island? • What are the three possible methods for solving this problem? Why there? • Need Philoctetes to take Troy • What was the Trojan War? Three Methods • Persuasion • Force – His bow makes him invincible • Deception Methods • Which option does Odysseus think they should use? Odysseus • take by ruse—”tongue is master” Method • What method does Neoptolemus want to use? Method • Wants to use force Odysseus • What does Odysseus tell Neoptolemus to say? Odysseus • He hates the Greeks • He has abandoned the war Conclusion • Who is in the Conclusion? Conclusion • • • • Neoptolemus Odysseus Philoctetes Heracles Conclusion • Neo return to undo his mistake of lying and give the bow back • Odysseus threatens Neoptolemus, but hides • Neoptolemus calls out Philoctetes – Had taken his means of subsistence • As hands it to Philoctetes, Odysseus appears Conclusion • Neoptolemus – “you have become savage” – “you distrust all” – come to Troy • Philoctetes – Prevented by “troubled treatment” he forsees – Wants to be taken home, as promised • Neoptolemus – agrees to take home Heracles • Tells Philoctetes to – go to Troy, where – He shall be healed – He kill Paris – He receives honors--spoils given to him – He works with Neoptolemus to take Troy – Twin lions – Show reverence to gods Episodes • Episode 1 – Philoctetes condition • lonely, a castaway, so friendless and so miserable • eats doves killed by bow – Neoptolemus • Has been dishonored by the Greeks Episodes • Episode 2 – Philoctetes • trusts Neoptolemus because they have the same enemy • “all human destiny is full of the fear and the danger that prosperity may be followed by its opposite. He who stands clear of trouble must beware of dangers, [505] and when a man lives at ease, then it is that he must look most closely to his livelihood, lest it secretly suffer ruin.” Episodes • Episode 3 – Neoptolemus agrees to take Philoctetes home – Merchant • Diomedes and forceful Odysseus are sailing for Phil • Odysseus capture Helenus, who prophisized that the Greeks would not win without Philoctetes – Philoctetes • Odysseus will not persuade, rather listen to viper – Neoptolemus • Tricks Philoctetes into giving him the bow Episodes • Episode 4 – Philoctetes in agony • Begs Neoptolemus to cut off his leg – Neoptolemus takes bow until pain eases – Sleep will come to ease great pain – Philoctetes passes out from the pain Episodes • Episode 5 – Philoctetes awakens – Neoptolemus • “All is offense when a man has abandoned his true nature and does what does not suit him.” • can't bring himself to do it – Philoctetes • Realizes that betrayed by Neo – Odysseus comes in – Philoctetes • Would rather kill himself than go to Troy • Wants revenge – Odysseus • Wants to leave him here, but take his bow Choral Odes • Parados – pity--alone, fierce disease – stripped of all life's gifts – no companionship • Choral 1 and 2 – Sympathy Choral Odes • Episode 3 – Philoctetes has wronged no one – a doom so repugnant as this of Philoctetes. For though he had wronged no one by force or thievery – no care, no support no comfort – eat arrowed food, stagnant water not wine – Needs to be rescued and taken home Choral Odes • Choral Ode 4 – sleep brings relief from pain • Choral Ode 5 – Philoctetes • can't kill doves to eat any more, will die of starvation • wants a weapon to kill himself to end the pain – Chorus • you chose to reject the better fate, and to accept the worse. • Experiencing the hate-filled, baneful curse of outcast • He should go to Troy