Oedipus (prologue)
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- Oedipus Prologue
- Plague has stuck city due to inbred children
- Suppliant Priests enter despondently, looking for Oedipus' help, he addresses them
- Shows Oedipus as caring, respectful Also arrogant, ignorant when he states the 'world knows his fame'
- Priest explains about plague. Compares city to a ship that has lost control.
- Relating to Athenian audience (Thebes is landlocked)
- Oedipus is respected for his previous encounters with the Sphinx, city needs his skills. Oedipus has sent Creon to Delphi for answers
- Skillful, resourceful, clever, proactive. How Athenians see selves. Gets audience to relate to Oedipus. Also shows he is pious.
- 'No-one is as sick as I' also dramatic irony - people know his disgusting back story
- Skillful, resourceful, clever, proactive. How Athenians see selves. Gets audience to relate to Oedipus. Also shows he is pious.
- Motif - blindness. Foreshadows end of play
- Creon returns with laurel wreath, shows he has message. He is reluctant to say in public, but Oedipus insists. Need to drive corruption from land.
- Oedipus asks what to do, man who killed Laius must be banished
- Irony when it is stated that Oedipus never saw Laius himself
- Stated the man were in Thebes. The survivor made up a story about Laius being killed by thieves as Oedipus was already admired at this point.
- Allows Oedipus to think he was not killer. Survivor's fault he didn't realise.
- Oedipus asks what to do, man who killed Laius must be banished
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