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Climax: "At sea once more we had to pass the Sirens, whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom. I had stopped up the ears of my crew with wax, and I alone listened while lashed to the mast, powerless to steer toward shipwreck. Next came Charybdis, who swallows the sea in a whirlpool, then spits it up again. Avoiding this we skirted the cliff where Scylla exacts her toll. Each of her six slavering maws grabbed a sailor and wolfed him down. Finally we were becalmed on the island of the Sun. My men disregarded all warnings and sacrificed his cattle, so back at sea Zeus sent a thunderbolt that smashed the ship. I alone survived, washing up on the island of Calypso."

Rising Action: Meanwhile, the mansion of Odysseus is infested with suitors for the hand of his wife Penelope. Everyone assumes Odysseus is dead. His son Telemachus calls an assembly to ask for help, and Zeus sends an omen of the suitors' doom. Two eagles swoop down, tearing throats and necks with their talons. Afterwards Telemachus sets sail for the mainland to seek news of his father.

Exposition: In the tenth year of the Trojan War, the Greeks tricked the enemy into bringing a colossal wooden horse within the walls of Troy. The Trojans had no idea that Greek soldiers were hidden inside, under the command of Odysseus. That night they emerged and opened the city gates to the Greek army. Troy was destroyed. Now it was time for Odysseus and the other Greeks to return to their kingdoms across the sea. Here begins the tale of the Odyssey, as sung by the blind minstrel Homer.

Falling Action: Menelaus tells what he learned of Odysseus while stranded in Egypt after the war. He was advised by a goddess to disguise himself and three members of his crew in seal pelts and then pounce on the Old Man of the Sea. If they could hold him down while he transformed himself into various animals and shapes, he would send them on their homeward way and give news of their companions. Menelaus did as instructed and was informed that Odysseus was presently being held against his will by the nymph Calypso.

Resulotion: Zeus, the King of the Gods, sends his messenger Hermes skimming over the waves on magic sandals to Calypso's island. Though the goddess isn't happy about it, she agrees to let Odysseus go. But the raft on which he sets sail is destroyed by his enemy, the god Poseidon, who lashes the sea into a storm with his trident. Odysseus barely escapes with his life and washes ashore days later, half-drowned. He staggers into an olive thicket and falls asleep.

Climax: Oedipus still knowing that Polybus and Merope were his parents, He went far away from Corinth. One day in Thebes road, Oedipus and Laius and his soldiers met in the crossroads and argued which way the right wagon until they faugth and Oedipus killed the soldiers as well as Laius . Without knowing that Laius is his biological father. Oedipus continued walking to Thebes but before entering the Thebes, Oedipus must answer the riddle of the sphinx. “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the morning”. To this Oedipus answered the “man”, Distraught that her riddle had been answered correctly the sphinx threw herself off the side of the wall. As a reward Oedipus ruled the Thebes and marry the Queen. Jocasta, who was also his biological mother. Thus, the prophecy was fulfilled.

Rising Action: Oedipus grow big and heard the rumor that his parent is not real biological parents, but his parents denied the acquisition. Confused Oedipus went to an oracle to seek the truth and the oracle told that he will kill his own father and marry his own mother.

Exposition: King Laius and Queen Jocasta bore a child but according to the prophecy their own child will kill King Laius and marry Queen Jocasta by this Laius ordered the messenger to sent away their child into the woods and kept tide but the messenger gave it to a shepherd. The shepherd soon gave the child to King Polybus and Queen Merope as a gift and named the child Oedipus.

Falling Action: There is a plague that is happening in Thebes due to the prophecy. Oedipus searches for Laius murderer and promises to exile the ma responsible for it, to stop the plague in Thebes. Ignorantly the fact that he is the murderer. The blind prophet Tiresias called Oedipus and revealed the truth. Oedipus accuses Tiresias of conspiring with Creon, Jocasta’s brother. He thougt that Tiresias only said that inorder for Creon to overthrown him. But there is only surviving witness of the murder, to testify that Oedipus killed Laius.

Resulotion: In the subsequent discussion, Jocasta’s gueses the truth and runs away. Oedipus found out that his wife Queen Jocasta’s also his biological mother, hanged herself and Oedipus, upon discovering her body, blinds himself with the golden brooches on her dress.

John Paul C. Saladaga

BSN IV- A