Oedipus quotes

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

“double doors dominate”
“I am Oedipus”
“you pray to the gods? Let me grant your prayers

Question 2

Quick action and caring

Answer 2

“I would be blind to misery”
“Oh my children”
“I acted at once”
“I have not been slow with that”

Question 3

Scene with Tiresias

Answer 3

"stone-blind, stone-deaf"
"Truth is only pain to him who sees"
"shroud it all in silence"
"master of all miseries"
"O Tiresias"

Question 4

Creon argument

Answer 4

“All of us are equals?”
“the traitor”
“I’ll be slow to learn - from you”
“I want you dead”

Question 5

Jocasta Initial scene

Answer 5

“Why this rage?”
“I respect you, Jocasta”
“my lord”

Question 6

Oedipus scene before his anagnorisis moment

Answer 6

“Fail to solve the mystery of my birth? Not in the world!”
“if you love your own life, call off this search!”
“Listen to you? No more”

Question 7

Gouge out eyes and after

Answer 7

“blood spurts from the roots”
“black hail”
“circling like a maddened beast”
“I am agony”
“have you lost all respect for human feelings?”
“I beg you”
“You’ve wept enough. Into the palace now”
“wounds us all together”
“none of your power follows you through life”