HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ismene, Pythia, Laius
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Tragic irony because audience knows o killed l: cares about the well-being of his people, doesn"t commit hubris, o claims that c and t are plotting to throw him out of thebes. Jocasta: oedipus" mother and wife, oedipus doesn"t know this, creon"s sister, tells o that he shouldn"t kill c, when o tells her what t told him, she says that prophecies aren"t true. Tells him that o isn"t laius" son. But this doesn"t sit well with o. When o was the prince of corinth, he heard from the delphic oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother. When fleeing, he comes to a threeway crossroads and meets. Kills laius in self defense: when polybus dies (who o and j think is o"s father) of natural causes, j and o rejoice because the prophecy of o killing his father must not be true. The part of the prophecy about sleeping with his mother is still bothering.
