Speeches of 3 Characters in Oedipus Rex

The primary conflict in Oedipus Rex is internal and takes place in the character of Oedipus as he fights against recognizing the truth until he is forced to do so. Everything that occurs has been foretold, and yet Oedipus has not recognized that his actions will lead to the consequences the gods have warned will occur. Oedipus is thus a criminal, and because he is a king, his criminal action has effects for the people he rules

Oedipus feels the pain of his people and tells them so:

I pity you, children. You have come full of longing,

but I have known the story before you told it

only too well. I know you are all sick,

yet there is not one of you, sick though you are,

that is as sick as I myself (58-61).

These changes in the environment are caused by the crime committed by Oedipus when he fulfilled the prophecy about killing his father and marrying his mother, though he does not know thi

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whom I have done things deserving worse punishment than hanging (1370-1376). This passage shows his belief in the next world and in the value of shame in that world, shame for the sins committed in this world. He takes the sins he has committed entirely on himself at this point, and he says the punishment he has inflicted on himself is just precisely because of the shame he has brought on his family. Creon makes a statement after Oedipus has blinded himself that shows him immediately now to be the ruler of the city and a man both gracious to the fallen king and eager to protect the people from any further damage that might result from these actions: Oedipus, I've come not so that I might laugh at you nor taunt you with evil of the past. But if you still are without shame before the face of men reverence at least the flame that gives all life, our Lord the Sun, and do not show unveiled to him to him pollution such that neither land nor holy rain nor light of day can welcome (1421-1429). Creon sends Oedipus to the privacy of the family chambers because he says he knows that only his kin should hear the troubles that are to be discussed and revealed by the fallen king. Creon earlier had been challenged as a t
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Approximate Word count = 1499
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)