Weekend HW 2/12-2/14

Hello. For this weekend I would like you to read up to the part where Creon "enters from the side" and addresses the citizens. He says, "I hear King Oedipus levels terrible charges against me. I had to come. I resent it deeply." I have a different version, so look for this part about 30 pages into the play. Please read the text closely. Answer one question:

This play is know for its various levels of irony. What is ironic about Oedipus' statement to the citizens: "Well I know you are sick to death, all of you, but sick as you are, not one is sick as I" (Your book may be a little different. but the message should be similar).

Here are a few other books for your independent reading assignment:

Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier)
Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March)
Truman Capote (In Cold Blood)
Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day)
Raymond Carver (Cathedral)
Henry Fielding (Tom Jones)
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Surfacing)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain)
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations)
Louise Erdich (Antelope Wife)E.M. Forster (A Passage to India)
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)