Episode 4

Question 1

The shepherd arrives

Answer 1

shepherd arrives and the messenger recognises him as one of Laius’s

Question 2

Oedipus questions the shepherd who says he doesn’t recognize the messenger so the messenger gives a description

Answer 2

on the slopes of Mount Cithaeron, grazing our flocks, he with two, me with one, three seasons, when winter came we would return. Shepherd remembers.
-reminds him of the child he gave him, pointed to Oedipous’s saying it is he

Question 3

Shepherd makes Oedipus act like a tyrant

Answer 3

shepherd: “damn you shut your mouth!
Oedipus: you won’t talk willingly,my pull talk violently (too concerned with himself) asks his arms to be twisted back

Question 4

What does the shepherd reveal

Answer 4

-he gave the child to the messenger and he got the child from Laius’ house.

Question 5

O: Is the child of Laius’s own blood?

the consequence for both

Answer 5

Shepherd realises he’s on the edge of the horrible truth but must say it
Oedipus says he’s on the hedge of hearing horrors but he must hear them

Question 6

The constant questioning

Answer 6

Constant questioning, we too must dig to find the truth

Question 7

messenger reveals all

Answer 7

he is a son of Laius and given to him by Your wife to kill the child, afraid of prophecies, that he’d kill his parents

Question 8

Oedipus’ desperation speech

Answer 8

“all come true”
“O light- now let me look my last on you!”
“I stand revealed at last”
“cursed in my birth, cursed in my marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands”