Oedipus Rex part 2-3

Part II
1. "You shall see how I started by you as I should. To avenge the city and the city's god." (page 964 line 137-138)
"I will do all that I can; you may tell them that." (page 964 line 145-146)
2. Oedipus receives sympathy from the audience because he is unaware that he killed his father. He is angry at the murderer, but doesn't realize that he committed the murder.
3. The imagery allows the audience to visualize he scene and picture the characters in the play. The descriptions written give the audience an image of Oedipus and the people he encounters.
4. Some motifs are: peripety, recognition, tragedy, irony.
5. The chorus is singing about the power and wonder of the gods, their life's beginning, fighting the enemy, destroying the enemy, and joy.

Part III
1. Role in story: "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! I knew this well, but did not act on it: else I should not have come." (page 969 line 102-104)
"I say that you are the murderer whom you seek." (page 970 line 143)
Teiresias is in the story because of his wisdom and his honest nature.
Internal conflict: "You are all ignorant. No, I will never tell you what I know. Now it is my misery, then it would be yours." (page 969 line 112-115)
"Creon is no threat. You weave your own doom." (page 970 line 162)
2. The external conflict is Teirsias overpowering knowledge. He is wiser than Oedipus and can easily fool him into thinking things. However, Oedipus is very powerful and thinks that he can control Teiresias. The two personalities described create a struggle for power domination.
3. "You are a child of endless night! You can not hurt me or any other man who sees the sun." (page 970 line 156)
4. The beginning of the scene I, where Oedipus is talking about what he would do to the murderer is an example of dramatic irony because Oedipus was actually the murderer.
5. A paradox in the story occurs when Teirsias says that the killer rests in this town. At first, it makes you think that Teirsias is wrong because they don't think that Oedipus could have killed his father. Later, it is revealed that Oedipus killed his father and that the statement Teirsias said was correct, the killer indeed rests in the town.
6. The chorus is talking about the mindset of the killer, that the killer will not be able to escape his guilt and sorrow, the idea that Oedipus the King is responsible for the murder, and the trust in their leader (Oedipus) over the scholar (Teirsias) and the possibility that Teiresias is using Oedipus to cover his mistake.