"JOCASTA": ACT 4

REVELATION

PARAPHRASING

• Messenger arrives from Corinth
• Jocasta is relieved
• Oedipus refuses the throne
• Jocasta realizes the truth
• Messenger tells story

CONNOTATION/DICTION

• "Silly"
• "Glaring Blue"
• "Strained"

CONTINUED

• "Trembled"
• "Cold god"
• "Chilled"
• "Freezing"
• "Ice"

TONE

• Fatalistic

SHIFT

• Dramatic Shift
• After third stanza
• From relief
• To desolation

TITLE

• Revelation
• It is the turning point for the poem

THEME

• Bystanders of a tragedy can
• have their lives equally
• destroyed as the Tragic Hero.