Oedipus quotes Flashcards

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Oedipus as a good leader

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‘I am ready to help, I’ll do anything’

‘we do rate you first of men’

‘i grieve for these people, my people, far more than I fear for my own life’

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Creon saying the only way to stop the plague

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‘banish the man, or pay back blood with blood’

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Oedipus being ironic - not knowing he is killer

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‘a thief, so daring, so wild, he’d kill a king?’

‘i’ll do everything’

‘i will fight for him as if he were my father’

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Tiresias knowing the truth

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‘how terrible - to see the truth’

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Oedipus’ attitude turnig sour when Tiresias tries to blame him

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‘you scum of the earth’

‘i have such a fury in me’

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Tiresias hinting at the truth to Oedipus

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‘you are the murderer you hunt’

‘you’re blind to the corruption of your life’

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Oedipus blaming Creon for these accusations

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‘what envy lurks inside you!’

‘so hungry to overthrow me’
‘pious fraud’

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Jocasta questionign prophecies

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‘nothing human can penetrate the future’

‘ A prophet? Well then, free yourself of every charge!’

‘the latest prophecies are hollow as the old’

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Oedipus worrying he may have killed him

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’ i have a terrible fear the blind seer can see’

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Oedipus pushing to know the truth

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‘I must know my birth no matter how common it may be’

‘never fail to search and learn my birth’

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His anagorisis

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‘O god - all come true, all burst to light!’

‘dark horror of darkness’

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Chrous commenting on oedipus’ blidning

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‘o the terror- the suffering’

‘i shudder at the sight’

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oedipus on his own blidning

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‘what good were eyes to me? Notihng i could see could bring me joy’

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