{"id":6923,"date":"2022-03-06T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2022-03-06T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:43:45","slug":"samir-ahmed-discussion-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/2022\/03\/06\/samir-ahmed-discussion-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Samir Ahmed Discussion 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The lines from the chorus that I\u2019ve chosen to analyze from the reading \u201cOedipus the King\u201d refers to the blind prophet Tiresias, who had refused to obey the king of Thebes, Oedipus, by helping him to find who killed his father. After he refuses to cooperate, Oedipus accuses the prophet as being one of the murderers of the king. Further, in a headed argument, Oedipus and Tiresias exchange feverous curses to one another.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the lines 535-540, Tiresias says: \u201cHe shall be proved father and brother both to his own children in his own house; to her that gave him birth, a son and husband both; a fellow sower in his father\u2019s bed with that same father that he murdered.\u201d Hence, the prophet not only condemns the king as the murderer of his own father, as he also curses Oedipus to a life of shame and sin, by taking his father\u2019s place in the family and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>being now the father of his brothers, and also laying down in the same bed as his own mom, while performing to be her husband.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Further, the chorus performs on the lines 560-575: \u201cHe is sad and lonely, his feet that carry him far from the navel of earth; but its prophecies, ever living, flutter around his head. The augur has spread confusion, terrible confusion; I do not approve what was said nor can I deny it. I do not know what to say; I am in a flutter of foreboding; I never heard in the present nor past of a quarrel between the sons of Labdacus and Polybus, that I might bring as proof in attacking the popular fame of Oedipus, seeking to take vengeance for undiscovered death in the line of Labdacus.\u201d Here, the chorus uses from a hyperbole \u201cflutter around his head\u201d to say that the prophecies spoken by Tiresias could not get out of the king\u2019s thoughts. Then, they proceed to another hyperbole by saying \u201cI am in a flutter of foreboding\u201d expressing their fear, and their doubt regarding the prophecies that have been told against the king.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lines from the chorus that I\u2019ve chosen to analyze from the reading \u201cOedipus the King\u201d refers to the blind prophet Tiresias, who had refused to obey the king of Thebes, Oedipus, by helping him to find who killed his father. After he refuses to cooperate, Oedipus accuses the prophet as being one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-6-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}