Oedipus - Search for self knowledge
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- Created on: 28-02-18 18:04
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- Oedipus Search for self knowledge
- Prologue
- 'I was not asleep dreaming' wanted to solve plague
- Oedipus sent Creon to Delphi.
- Asks why Thebans didn't investigate Laius' murder
- Oedipus says he will bring it all to light himself
- 1st episode
- Let me grant your prayers - arrogant?
- Oedipus claims if he was there - no mystery
- Edict - have to reveal truth, for his, Thebes & Apollo's sake ommits to course of action
- Proactive -Tiresias, says he's master of mysteries - respect to gain favour?
- Doesn't want him to go -'on our knees' eventually stubborn betraying Thebes?
- Asks about parents
- 2nd Episode
- Asks about Laius' murder & if looked into to save his own skin
- Oedipus asks Jocasta about Laius - suspects himself (3 roads)
- Must see shepherd, despite declaring it was thieves
- 3rd episode
- Complete faith: Polybus packs them off to sleep with him in hell
- Never lets go of fear of Merope
- Interviews shepherd - what was he doing is mountain? A herdsman? was he in pain? Who pinned his ankles?
- Counts himself son of chance - he will 'never fail to search & learn his birth'
- 'Not for all the world' won't listen to Jocasta
- 4th episode
- Asks both leader & messenger if it is shepherd in distance
- Won't take no for an answer - You're a dead man if I have to ask again.
- interviews shepherd, background. Forces arms back no answer about child given
- Knows he's at the edge of hearing horrors 'but I must hear!'
- Leads to anagnorisis
- Knows he's at the edge of hearing horrors 'but I must hear!'
- Asks both leader & messenger if it is shepherd in distance
- Exodus
- Still inquisitive - where am I going?... Where does all this agony hurl me?
- Arrogant - don't lecture me
- Still inquisitive - where am I going?... Where does all this agony hurl me?
- Prologue
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