719 CHORUS: Perhaps it was a sudden gust of anger 720 that forced that insult from him, and no judgment. In this passage, the Chorus is responding to Creon’s decree that he has heard “deadly words spread” about him by the king; he has been accused of treason. Rightfully […]
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In Oedipus the King, the chorus is a collective group of actors or voices that represent the reactions and opinions of citizens of Thebes. In one of their Odes, they sang the following; Stanzas 1370 to 1375 “Count you as equal with those who live not at all! What man, What […]
For this discussion board I chose lines 771-775, “May the sun God king of Gods, forbid! may I die without God’s blessing, without friends” help. If I had any such thought. But my spirit is broken by my unhappiness for my wasting country: and this would but add troubles amongst […]
I chose line 66 to 76 by Oedipus: OEDIPUS: “I pity you, children. You have come full of longing, but I have known the story before you told It only too well. I know you are all sick, yet there is not one of you, sick though you are, that […]
“Truly Zeus and Apollo are wise and inhuman things all-knowing; 580, but amongst men, there is no distinct judgment, between the prophet and me—which of us is right. One man may pass another in wisdom, but I would never agree 585 with those that find fault with the king till […]
Hi everyone, The passage I chose to discuss is a lengthy but poetically written dialogue by Oedipus. The line starts from 445 to 470. “Wealth, sovereignty and skill outmatching skill for the contrivance of an envied life. Great store of jealousy fill your treasury chests, if my friend Creon, friend […]
