Hey, I missed you guys on Thursday!

The following will be your timed essay prompt for Monday. It is posted here only for preparatory opportunity and you need not post a response to it here.

According to critic Northrop Frye, “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning.”

In Oedipus Rex, the tragic figure functions as an instrument, causing the suffering of others. Write an essay in which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.

BLOG RESPONSE PROMPT:

Considering the free will and determinism information from Thursday, is it possible that free will is an illusion? I'm looking for your personal perspective, supported by the information in the article and connected to the ideas posited by your peers.

Oh, and Sam Pitcavage rocked the mother-scratchin' house on Friday.

Have a great weekend,

RMH