Oedipus Rex
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- Prologue
- A plague has overtaken Thebes, and Kreon has been told by an oracle that they must find the murderer of King Laios to stop it.
- By exile or death, blood for blood. It was murder that brought the plague-wind on the city (Lines 104-105).
- Scene 1
- A blind seer named Teiresias is summoned to help solve the murder, and he claims Oedipus is the killer.
- But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: you can not see the wretchedness of your own life, (Lines 196-197).
- Scene 2
- Oedipus accuses Kreon of conspiring against him, and they argue with each other.
- Poor foolish men, what wicked din is this? (Line 128).
- Iokaste tells Oedipus of the events of Laios's death, and Oedipus remembers a similar event and believes himself guilty. They summon the shepherd who witnessed it.
- Scene 3
- A messenger comes and tells them that Polybos, the king of Corinth, is dead. He also says that Oedipus is not actually Polybos son.
- They learn that the very shepherd they are summoning is the one that found Oedipus and gave him to them.
- No more your father than the man speaking to you (Line 103).
- The shepherd arrives, and after some persuading, he reveals he was tasked to let Oedipus die.
- Scene 4
- But instead he gave him to the messenger. He says Oedipus is really Laios and Iokaste's son.
- No man living is more wretched than Oedipus (Line 67).
- Exodos
- Iokaste kills herself, and Oedipus stabs his eyes out. He then imposes an exile on himself.
- Let me purge my father's Thebes of the pollution of my living here, (Lines 223-224).
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