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”
How does Oedipus reveal his arrogance to Tiresias
“the crown the city gave me- I never sought it”
“so hungry to overthrow me”
“the soul of trust”
How is Oedipus disrespectful to Creon
"your treachery" "Aren't you the fool" "you've a wicked way with words" "if you had a shred of decency" "No, I want you dead"
show Oedipus’ relationship with Jocasta
“your words move me”
“I respect you Jocasta, much more than these men here”
Show Oedipus’ inquisitive nature
"my thoughts racing back and forth" "I though I heard you say" "I think I just called down a dreadful curse upon myself" "where did this happen. Be precise" "how did he look? describe him"
What does Oedipus tell us about his previous life
“my father was Polybus, King of Corinth”
“My mother, a Dorian”
“I was held the prince of the realm among the people there”
How does Oedipus show his arrogance when talking about his worries to his wife
“more hated by the gods?”
“I was held prince of the realm”
How does Oedipus show his intelligence when talking about his worries to his wife
“I must be exiled and even in exile never see my parents”
“You said thieves….. one can’t equal many”
How does Oedipus show his desperation when talking about his worries to his wife
“I brought down these piling curses on myself”
“I am an abomination- heart and soul”
“you pure and awesome gods, never let me see that day”
show Oedipus reaction to hearing the news of Polybus’ death
“poor man”
“longing for me wasted him away”
“I was lost in fear”
show Oedipus as he realises that Polybus is not his father
“Polybus was not my father”
“how can my father equal nothing? You’re nothing to me”
“why did he call me his son”
“he loved me deeply”
what is the meaning of Oedipus’ name
οφδiπους
οφζi= Swollen
πους= foot
as his ankles were pinned together “and you got your name from that misfortune”
show that Oedipus is being Volatile when he has his anagnorisis
“Out with it!”
“Let it burst!”
“Answer all my questions”
show that Oedipus is being intelligent when he has his anagnorisis
“with a clue like this? fail to solve the mystery of my birth?”
“I must know it all, must see the truth at last”
What is the reaction of Oedipus to the shepherd’s refusal to talk
“you need a lashing more than he does”
“you’ll talk with pain”
“twist his arms back”
“[ I wish I died] you’ve got your wish if you don’t tell the truth”
“all burst to _____!”
“cursed in my _______, _______ in my marriage, ______ in the ______ I cut down with these _____!”
light birth cursed cursed lives hands
explore the language used by Oedipus after he has blinded himself
“I am agony- where am I going?”
“swept away on a dark tide” “my dark power”
“Dark, horror of darkness, my darkness”
“What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy”
why did Oedipus blind himself
“How could I look my father in the eyes when I go down to death? Or mother so abused”
“how could I long to look into their [his children’s] eyes”
“I am misery”
“fathers, _______, sons- one ________ _______”
“________, wives, __________”
“the ______ things a man can do, I have ______ ___ ______”
brothers
murderous breed
brides/mothers
blackest/ done them all
