ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Iliad, Laius
29 Oct 2017
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The iliad: if someone doesn"t come forward, you"ll be shamed and forever banished, curses murderer irony. Leader enters maybe we should ask apollo, through tiresias (soothsayer), how to find the murderer: blind, like homer has a guide greeks felt blindness meant great insight, sent for twice. Tiresias states uncompromising truths: you are the curse, the corruption of the land. , i say you are the murderer you hunt. , oedipus is now suspicious that tiresias is conspiring with creon for the throne. Fate vs. free will: free will, voluntarily left corinth, treatment of tiresias, creon, paranoid, hostile, impulsive, impetuous, rash, behavior at place where three roads meet. Is blind but has his eyes will later be physically blind (will tap stick) but will see the truth. Is rich now but will be a beggar later. Is both brother and father to his children. Is both son and husband to his mother.
