Select the correct answer.
In Sophocles's Greek tragedy Oedipus the King, Oedipus discovers that he has unknowingly killed his biological father and married his birth mother. The
horror of this truth causes Jocasta,
Oedipus's wife/mother, to hang herself and Oedipus to stab himself in the eyes. What element of Greek tragedy do
these final two acts give
expression to?
O A. catastrophe
O B. hamartia
OC. anagnorisis
COD. catharsis
O E. hubris