oedipus rex!

• part I question 2- this story is a prime example of dramatic irony and tragety. Part II
  Question one- the lines that sum up Oedipus and in my opinion can be found on pages 962 they are lines 26 and 27. They set him up for his great tragedy yet these lines embody what he is about.
  Question 2- Oedipus has no idea that he is the man he is looking for.
  Question 3- we can see this powerful man and his advisory deep in tough yet they are clueless and we pity them because we know what they are looking for.
  Question 4- irony and tragedy are present motifs.
  Question 5- they are foreshadowing things to come
  Part III
  Question one- the passage right after it says that Teiresias is brought in on page 968 explains who he is. Lines 14-16 on page 967 reveal more of what he knows and of who he is.
  Question two- the city will remain in peril until the murder is brought to justice. However the man is the same person they are looking for, yet even he doesn’t know this.
  Question three- at the beginning Oedipus is flattering himself when he is talking about his victory over the sphinx and again when he is talking about how the murder shall be punished.
  Question four- I would like to argue that the whole story is dramatic irony. We know the truth that Oedipus is looking for. He is looking for the murder yet it is he who murdered. Also his wife is his mother, we know this yet he doesn’t. We know that he killed his father but he doesn’t it is all dramatic irony.
  Question five- what Oedipus is looking for is he.
  Question six- it is revealing the truth about the murder.