oedipus quotes

Question 1

pride + arrogance quotes (4)

Answer 1

“pride breeds the tyrant” - chorus

“curse himself” in regards to being the reason of the plague - oedipus

“free[d] of every charge”
- jocasta

“the world knows my fame” - oedipus

Question 2

knowledge (4)

Answer 2

“can’t hurt me … [i] see the light” - tiresias

“ignorant talk stated dark suspicions” - chorus

“hear the truth”

“human cant penetrate the future”

Question 3

loyalty and justice 1

Answer 3

“i worship you in dead” - chorus

Question 4

redemption

Answer 4

“a man so desperate to save his life from god?”

Question 5

suffering 2

Answer 5

“better to die than be alive and blind” - chorus

“man in agony” - jocasta

Question 6

family 2

Answer 6

“nothing worse being branded a traitor in the city”
“the land so sick”

Question 7

harmatia and hubris (def)

Answer 7

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a hero

excessive pride or defiance of the gods

Question 8

purity (4)

Answer 8

“past all cure” - creon
“blind to corruption”
“cleanse us from defilement”
“nor the nile can wash this palace clean”

Question 9

power of gods

Answer 9

“it is my fate”
“apollo who brought my sufferings”