Oedipus Rex, a classic Greek victimize, was written almost 2500 old age ago by a famous playwright named Sophocles. The play focuses on finding Laius killer only through the process, Oedipus finds give away who he truthfully is. In Scene one lines 284-448 Oedipus is speech to Teiresias a sieve prophet, he asks Teiresias to reveal Laius killer. This passage has delimit characteristics that are important to the play as a whole, which cigarette be simply conveyed on stage. This passage helps develop and consider the play more intriguing by showing how concealment to the truth Oedipus really is.
Before the beginning of the play Oedipus saves the people of Thebes from the anathemise of the Sphinx and becomes king virtually overnight. He proclaims his name proudly as though it were itself a healing charm I cede come myself to hear you-/ I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name.(Prologue 9-10) what Oedipus does not take is that he had killed Laius son of Labdakos on the way to the Sphinx. The play is ground on finding the killer of Laius. Oedipus wants justice done and for the receiver to be banished from Thebes. Oedipus does what he can to make this happen. This includes a discourse with Teiresias.
The passage starts off when a boy leads in the blind prophet Teiresias to Oedipus.
Oedipus then begins to beg Teiresias to reveal who Laius murderer is, but Teiresias answers only that he knows the truth but wishes he did not. mystify at first, then angry, Oedipus insists that Teiresias tell Thebes Thebes what he knows. Provoked by the anger and insults of Oedipus, Teiresias begins to hint at his knowledge. Finally, when Oedipus furiously accuses Teiresias of the murder, Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus himself is the curse on Thebes that he is...
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