Oedipus the King condensed notes

Oedipus the King

Fate v Free will/ fore shadow

• Tiresisas trying to inexplictily tell Oedipus who killed Laius, but his hubris doesnt allow him to see
  • "what will come will come"
  • "You are the curse, the corruption of the land!" (technique of matix making it tense)
  • "I pity you, you fling inaulta at me the very insults each man here will fling at you soon"
  • "brother and father to the children he embraced" - start of a peripeteia development

• Two set of propehecy via apollo, one given to Laius and Jocasta in thebes and the other to Oedipus- same peophecy just misinterpretated from Oedipus
  • "doom would strike him down at the hands of a son ... but Laius was ... killed by strnagers, theieves at aplace where three roads meet"
  • ""the god Apollo spurned me, sent me away" "'You are fated to couple with your mother... you will kill your father"

Guilt

• Jocasta's aganorisis
• Oedipus' half understanding of his fault
  • "I think I've called down a dreadful curse upon myself"

Action v reflection

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