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Oedipus Quote Analysis
Oedipus Quote Analysis
- “it is my fate”
- “ did you… find me by accident?”
“she was afraid- frightening prophecies”
Free will
“but to force the gods to act against their will – no man has the power.” Oedipus
Hubris
“the world knows my name”
Sight vs blindness
“whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away”- creon
“blind as you are, you can feel all the more what sickness haunts our city” – Oedipus
“to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!” – Tiresias
- “ not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark” – Jocasta,
foreshadows Oedipus going blind
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Finding out the truth
“one thing could hold the key to it all, a small beginning give us grounds for hope”
The sphinx said “Let the mystery go and concentrate on what lay at our feet”- creon
“if you love ur own life, call off this search?”
“I must know it all” – Oedipus
“horrible truth”
“the truth with all its power lives inside me”
Irony
“I will fight for him (Laius) as if he were my father” – Oedipus
“joy to the eyes”
Oedipus
“flight of my own intelligence hit the mark”
Metalanguage: “majestic”
“man of agony” – Jocasta calls Oedipus this
Hypocrite
“you criticise my temper… unaware of the one you live with, you revile me”
Hamartia
- “pride breeds the tyrant, violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is
overripe and rich with ruin- clawing up to the heights, headlong pride crashes down
the abyss- sheer doom!”
Oedipus trying to match the gods, when people brought sticks to put on the gods alter, he
told them to take it off, and he’ll solve their problems.
- “cannot restrain himself from outrage” – chorus
- “you’re nothing to me”- Oedipus to the messenger
- “I have such fury in me” – Oedipus
- “I simply did not know” – Oedipus addresses his hamartia himself”
- “stubborn”
Ignorance
“my boy, its clear, you don’t know what you’re done”
- “your words are nothing”
Patriarchy
“ I respect you Jocasta, much more than these men over here” glances at the chorus –
Oedipus