Lorianny Neris, Discussion 6

A scene and passage by the chorus that I liked was

“This is a terrible sight for men to see!

I never found a worse!

Poor wretch, what madness came upon you! What evil spirit leaped upon your life

to your ill-luck—a leap beyond man’s strength! Indeed I pity you, but I cannot

look at you, though there’s much I want to ask

and much to learn and much to see.

I shudder at the sight of you” (1488-1497).

I chose this passage because its language and expressions are deep and interesting, and the message behind it is easy to understand. The Chorus cries in agony that Oedipus let his anger take over him and is too terrible for eyes to see, that he has been punished in both body and soul and claimed it would’ve been better death than blindness.

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