Family in Greek Tragedy
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- Family in Greek Tragedy
- Oedipus questions Jocasta's and Creon's loyalty to him. His obsessive desire to know the truth creates tension between them
- the consequence could be Jocasta killing herself and Oedipus blinding himself
- [Oedipus] 'Don't tell me you're not the enemy, the traitor'
- [Jocasta] 'Man of agony, that is the only name I have for you'
- Oedipus responds to his prophecy by leaving Corinth for good and avoiding who he thinks is his mother and father
- 'I heard all that day and ran. I abandoned Corinth'
- Jocasta and Laius abandon baby Oedipus after hearing their prophecy. The fact that they would rather prevent the prophecy than keep their child shows how important prophecies were
- [shepherd] 'She was afraid-frightening prophecies'
- Dionysus' family does not accept him-Pentheus ultimately chooses to disrespect him despite being warned.
- Hodgkinson-'Pentheus is blind to the identity of a member of his own family, despite his family trying to educate him'
- Dionysus harshly punishes his entire family, despite Cadmus taking part in bacchic dancing and encouraging Pentheus to accept him
- 'Even if this man is no god-Declare him one! Tell a lie in a good cause'
- 'Dionysus, we beg you-we have done wrong!'
- 'I have come ready, wearing these clothes of the god'
- Hodgkinson-'Pentheus' rejection of the gods relates to both his dimity and to his relationship with the family'
- Oedipus questions Jocasta's and Creon's loyalty to him. His obsessive desire to know the truth creates tension between them
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