Oedipus, Oedipus Flashcards
show Oedipus’ arrogance in his first speech
“Here I am, myself”
“you all know me”
“the world knows my fame”
show Oedipus’ kindness in his first speech
“your dignity”
“some sudden fear”
“I am ready to help”
“you can trust me”
show oedipus’ intelligence in his first speech
he solved the riddle of the sphinx
“I acted at once”
“what I must do or say to save our city”
show Oedipus as desperate in his first speech
“after a painful search I found one cure”
“my wife’s own brother”
Show Oedipus as dutiful to the God’s in his first speech
“I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet”
“why here and kneeling, what preys upon you so”
how and why does Oedipus insist on being given the news of the Oracle publicly
“speak to us all” “I grieve for these, my people” “more than I fear for my own life” he wants to show that he is brave and can come up with a solution
show how Oedipus does not appreciate the clues he is offered
“Impossible unless conspirators paid him off”
“I’ll bring it all to light myself”
“your king was murdered- royal blood”
“ I am ….. Apollo’s champion too”
show that Oedipus exhibits hubris
“you pray to the gods? let me grant your prayers”
“If I had been present then, there would be no mystery”
what is Oedipus’ proclamation
“If any one of you knows who murdered Lauis”
“I order him to reveal the whole truth to me”
How does Sophocles make Oedipus’ speech about his proclamation dramatically ironic
” a man from alien soil” - Oedipus is also a foreigner
“banish this man, whoever he may be” showing even if it is himself he must be banished
“He is the plague”
“my curse on the murderer” cursing himself
“unknown in his crime”
“I curse myself as well” he is the murderer
“I will fight for him as if he were my father”- he is his father
show how Oedipus is thankful upon first meeting Tiresias
“master of all the mysteries of our life”
“the one saviour we can find”
show how Oedipus is volatile to Tiresias
“who could restrain his anger hearing you”
“you scum of the earth”
“your words are nothing- futile”
Show how Oedipus is desperate for Tiresias’ help
“rescue me”
“we are in your hands”
“I beg you”
Show how Oedipus feels betrayed by Tiresias
“you’re bent on betraying us”
“you’re bound to tell me that”
“you did the killing single- handed”
How is Oedipus’ hamartia of blindness shown in this section
“eyes blind as stone”- On says to T dramatically ironic
“you’ll pay in tears”
“you pious fraud”
