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Oedipus

Oedipus. Additional information. When Creon returns with his news we also learn that the murderer is still with in the city of Thebes after all these years.

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Oedipus

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  1. Oedipus Additional information

  2. When Creon returns with his news we also learn that the murderer is still within the city of Thebes after all these years. • Oedipus ironically promises to solve the mystery of Laius’sdeath, vowing to curse and drive out the murderer (*dramatic irony– reader knows something character does not) • When Tiresias accuses Oedipus of being the murderer, Oedipus accuses Creon and Tiresiasof conspiring against him. • Oedipus questions Tiresiasas to why he did not help the Thebans withsolving the riddle of the Sphinx years ago andbrags he solved it himself. • Oedipus makes fun of Tiresias’s blindness, but ironically the one who is truly blind to what is occurring is Oedipus himself.

  3. Tiresias defends his skills claiming Oedipus’s parentstrustedhim. Oedipus grew up in the distant city of Corinth and questionsTiresias on how he knows his parents. • Tiresias presents Oedipus with a riddle: The murderer of Laius will turn out to be both father and brother to his own children, and the sonof his own wife. • While living in Corinth, Oedipus overheard someone at a banquet saying he was not the real sonof the king and queen. • The messenger who brings the news of Polybus’s passing also says the people of CorinthwantOedipus to rule them now. • The messenger who brings this news is a shepherd as is the old man who survived the fight at the 3 way crossroads.

  4. Polybus’s wife (Oedipus’s foster mom) was called Merope. • The servant of Laius sent by Jocasta to murder her son bound the boyto a treeby his feet and left him on the mountain to die. • The servant took pityon the child and took him to a far city (Corinth) thinking the distance would avoid the prophecy from coming true. He handed the baby to a shepherd in Corinth, who turns out to be the messenger who brings the news of Polybus’s death. • Childless, Polybus and Meropeaccepted the child as a gift and named him Oedipus (Swollen-Foot) because of the wounds they found upon him. • Jocasta’s suicide and Oedipus’s self torture (poking out eyes) goes on off stage and a nameless servanttells the audience what occurs.

  5. Jocasta hangs herself in her bedroom because she realizes the truth. • Oedipus finding her dead uses the pins from her own robe to stab out his eyes. • Keeping in mind the topic of blindness in the scene with Tiresias, when Oedipus truly sees the truth (“eyes are opened”), he deliberately blinds himself. • Oedipus begs Creon (who is now in charge) to exile him. • He asks Creon to watch over his daughters, Antigone & Ismene. Homework: Answer Oedipus Questns.

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