Oedipus: mock my excellence, but you will find out i am truly great. teiresias: that quality of yours now ruins you. oedipus: i do not care, if i have saved the city. teresias: i will go now. boy, lead me away. oedipus: yes, let him guide you back. you’re in the way. if you stay, you’ll just provoke me. once you’re gone, you won’t annoy me further. what character flaw does teiresias point out?

In at least 150 words, describe the tone of patrick henry’s virginia convention speech, including the rhetorical devices he uses to achieve this. use evidence from the text to support your answer.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

What is the central idea in this advice from branch rickey to jackie robinson?