Oedipus
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- Prologue - The people of Thebes want Oedipus to figure out how to stop the plague.
- Oh great king. Thebes is dying. Thebes has been overrun by a plague. We people are suffering greatly!
- Help us
- I have sent Creon to see and find a way to stop the suffering of Thebes
- I know this but you do not know the pain I feel. I suffer more greatly knowing my people are going through this
- Episode 1 - Oedipus forces Tiresias to tell who the murder is.
- TELL ME WHO IS THE MURDER BLIND MAN!
- You are the murder of king Laius! You are the curse of this land!
- "That obscenity, twice—by god, you’ll pay." (Line 414 page 278)
- Episode 2 - Oedipus remembers killing a man just like what his wife described of the king that was killed
- "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth." (Line 801-803 Page 293)"
- "Oh no no, I think I’ve just called down a dreadful curse upon myself—I simply didn’t know!" (Line 820 Page 294)
- What did the man like?
- When and where exactly did the murder of Laius happen?
- He was swarthy and had a build just like you
- "A place called Phocis, where two branching roads,one from Daulia, one from Delphi, come together—a crossroads." (Line 808-810 Page 294)
- "Thebes is dying. A blight on the fresh cropsand the rich pastures, cattle sicken and die,and the women die in labor, children stillborn,and the plague"
- "I say you are the murderer you hunt." (Line 413 page 278)
- "Strange,hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered,my thoughts racing back and forth." (Line 801-803 Page 293)
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