The climax is like the most important/exciting moment of a play/book/movie; everything before the climax more or less builds up to it, dropping hints, building characters, etc, and then the climax is when that important something happens. It could be a battle, a discovery, a chase scene, etc.
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the highest point of excitement in a play or climax is the point in a drama in which conflicts are resolved
Exposition, conflict, climax, resolution.
That all the prophecies are true is what Oedipus realizes in the climax of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the term climax describes the turning point of greatest drama and tension. The description fits Theban King Oedipus' realization that the prophecies that he seeks to sabotage in fact fit how his life turns out. It is a turning point of great drama and tension for the audience and characters and of the beginning steps to resolution.
In the ancient Greek play, "Oedipus Rex," the climax arrives in the second half of the drama with Oedipus' self-blinding with pins from his mother's dress. His horrible transgressions having been revealed, Oedipus cannot bear to continue on in life with sight; he can barely continue to live at all.
It is the climax when Oedipus realizes that he is his father's killer and his mother's husband in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the term climax describes the turning point of highest drama and tension. The description fits Theban King Oedipus realizing that all the prophecies are true in regard to his predicted fate.