Oedipus quotes Flashcards
Oedipus as a good leader
‘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’
Creon saying the only way to stop the plague
‘banish the man, or pay back blood with blood’
Oedipus being ironic - not knowing he is killer
‘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’
Tiresias knowing the truth
‘how terrible - to see the truth’
Oedipus’ attitude turnig sour when Tiresias tries to blame him
‘you scum of the earth’
‘i have such a fury in me’
Tiresias hinting at the truth to Oedipus
‘you are the murderer you hunt’
‘you’re blind to the corruption of your life’
Oedipus blaming Creon for these accusations
‘what envy lurks inside you!’
‘so hungry to overthrow me’
‘pious fraud’
Jocasta questionign prophecies
‘nothing human can penetrate the future’
‘ A prophet? Well then, free yourself of every charge!’
‘the latest prophecies are hollow as the old’
Oedipus worrying he may have killed him
’ i have a terrible fear the blind seer can see’
Oedipus pushing to know the truth
‘I must know my birth no matter how common it may be’
‘never fail to search and learn my birth’
His anagorisis
‘O god - all come true, all burst to light!’
‘dark horror of darkness’
Chrous commenting on oedipus’ blidning
‘o the terror- the suffering’
‘i shudder at the sight’
oedipus on his own blidning
‘what good were eyes to me? Notihng i could see could bring me joy’
