OEDIPUS THE KING - EPISODE TWO AND STASIMON TWO

WHAT HAPPENS

- Episode includes: Creon, Chorus, Oedipus and Jocasta. 

- Creon has come to face the accusations made against him by Oedipus. The Chorus suggest that Oedipus was not being level-headed when he made the accusations = essentially without much intent and in anger. 

- Oedipus enters and is angered that Creon has dared to come to the palace - use of STICHOMYTHIA between them as the

- Creon puts forward his points towards why he would never want to be king = Oedipus doesn't believe him = Jocasta enters and Oedipus tells her of his accusations = the Chorus and Jocasta plead with Oedipus to hear reason. 

- Oedipus doesn't listen and Creon leaves = massive sign of Oedipus' anger and arrogance in this episode. 

- Oedipus then tells Jocasta of Tiresias' claim that he murdered Laius = Jocasta tells him to dispute PROPHECY (and therefore the gods) due to her own not coming true = that her son would murder its father. 

- The details of Laius' murder that he extracts from Jocasta make Oedipus start to believe he may be the murderer of Laius. 

- Oedipus calls for the shepherd that was meant to have left Laius' son to die to see if the two prophecies match - still doesn't make the connection with the 'marrying his mother' part. 

SIGNS OF OEDIPUS ANGER/ARROGANCE  = LINKS TO HIS HUBRIS AND THEREFORE HIS HAMARTIA (FATAL FLAW)

- Talks of how Creon would need powerful friends and big armies to bring him down = mocking and arrogant. 

- Despite only wanting the murderer of Laius to be EXILED (said in EPISODE ONE) he said he wants Creon to be MURDERED "I want you dead" = TYRANNICAL NATURE, clearly showing excessive anger in wanting to protect himself and his power here. 

- Blames what occurs with Creon on the chorus (and therefore his people) by suggesting it…