Oedipus - Pride quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Pride from Oedipus
5 key quotes
A
- “Praying before me”
- “You all know me, the world knows my fame: I am Oedipus”
- I’ll bring it all to light myself”
- “I am the land’s avenger by all rights, and Apollo’s champion too”
- “You pray to the gods? Let me grant your prayers”
“I stopped the sphinx”
2
Q
Pride from chorus
3 key quotes
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- “Pride breeds the tyrant”
- “Violent pride, gorgin, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin - clawing ip to the heights, headlong pride crashed won the abyss - sheer doom!”
- “Let a rough doom tear im down, repay his pride, breakneck ruinous pride”
3
Q
Duty from Oedipus (Polis)
2 quotes
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- “I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet.”
- “So I honour my obligations: I fight for the gods and the murdered man.”
4
Q
Duty from Oedipus (Oikos - family)
1 quote
A
- “That is my blood, my nature - I will never betray it, never fail to seach and learn my birth!”
5
Q
Duty from Oedipus (Selfish - even beyond oikos)
2 quotes
A
- “By avenging Laius, I defend myself.”
- “For my own sake, I’ll rid us of the corruption”
6
Q
Rash action from Oedipus
1 quotes
A
- “He is a man of action, swift and vigorous action”
7
Q
Reflection from Oedipus (Post anagonorisis)
2 quotes
A
- “I think I’ve just called down a dreadful curse upon myself”
- “You’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused”
8
Q
Action + Reflection from Creon
4 quotes
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- “if you see things calm, rationally as I do”
- “He’ll have a plan. He’ll act”
- “First I want the gods to clarify my duties”
9
Q
Knowledge is pain from Tiresias
4 quotes
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- “How terrible to see the truth, when truth is only pain to hi who sees!”
- “You bear your burden, I’ll bear mine.”
- “never reveal my dreadful secrets”
- “The truth with all its power lives inside me”
10
Q
Knowledge is pain from Oedipus
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- “The worst terror that ever met my eyes”
- “the agony! I am agony”
11
Q
Denial of uncomfortable truth from Jocasta
3 quotes
Fear and escapism
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- “I beg you”
- “Don’t give it another though, don’t even think”
- “Stop - in the name of god, if your own life, call of this search!”`
12
Q
Denial of uncomfortable truth form Oedipus
Anger and deflection
A
- "”you helped hatch the plot”
- “Who primed you for this?”
- “Creon! Is this conspiracy his or yours?”
- “Creon’s to blame. Creon schemes against me”
13
Q
Pursuit of knowledge from Oedipus
4 quotes
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- “What - give up now”
- “I must know it all, must see the truth at last”
- “I’m right at the edge, the horrible truth”
- “I’m at the edge of hearing horrors, yes, but I must hear!”
14
Q
Ignorance for Oedipus
2 quotes
A
- “All unknowing, you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood”
- “Quite sane - in my behalf”
15
Q
Futility in fighting fate
5 quotes
A
- “Well let destiny come and take mme on its way!”
- “Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping in the dark.”
- “I don’t know. And when i don’t I keep quiet.”
- “What will come will come”
- “cannot outrun the dreaded voices of delphi”
16
Q
Motif of blindness
8 quotes
Also links with tragic irony
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- “I would be blind to misery”
- “stone-blind, stone-deaf - sense, eyes blind as stone!”
- “Given eyes, I’d say you did the killing single-handed”
- “what good were eyes to me”
- “You with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life”
- “Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich”
- “Better to die than be alive and blind”
- “Racing blind”
17
Q
Tragic Irony literary device
5 quotes
In addition to quotes from motif of blindness
A
- “So I will fight for him as if he were my father”
- “Flinging at me the very insults each man here will fling at you soon”
- “Called down a dreadful curse upon myself”
- “hand that served his once bright eyes so well - that made them blind”
- “If I’d been present then, there would have been no mystery”
18
Q
Oedipus’ emotions
4 quotes
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- “You criticise my temper…unaware of the one you live with”
- “Sullen in yielding, brutal in your rage - you will go too far”
- “Natures lik yours are hardest on themselves”
- “No, I want you dead”
19
Q
Free-will depsite fate
1 quote
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- “Apollo - he ordained my agonies - these, my pains on pains! But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine alone - no one else - I did it all myself!”
