The blind, broken Oedipus calls for his children; when he hears crying, he knows they are his daughters I'll just call them that, since it gets a little complicated to identify their relationship accurately every time I reference them and he calls them to him.
He says this:. I weep for you. Although I cannot see, I think about your life in days to come, the bitter life which men will force on you. What citizens will associate with you?
What feasts will you attend and not come home in tears, with no share in the rejoicing? When youre mature enough for marriage, who will be there for you, my children, what husband ready to assume the shame tainting my children and their children, too? Who, then, will marry you? No one, my children. You must wither, barren and unmarried. The story ends before we can know whether the things Oedipus predicted came true, but we know that what he says is probably the girls' new reality.
They will be treated as monsters by others and will have to endure shame and insults from everyone because of what Oedipus and Jocasta did. Oedipus is afraid that no one will ever want to marry them, which is probably true; and he sees a dire future of barren singleness for the daughters he loved.
He does not say this, but remember that, until just a few moments ago, these girls were princesses, daughters of a king.
Now they are the object of scorn, ridicule, and shame for all to see. Even the livestock are suffering. King Oedipus sends Creon to the Oracle of Delphi to find out what's going on. The Oracle, in her typically cryptic fashion, declares that the killer of Laius is living in Thebes and must be expelled.
When Creon tells Oedipus this, the King swears that he'll figure out who the killer is and exile the jerk like nobody's business. Creon suggests that Oedipus call in the help of Tiresias , the famous seer, who knows pretty much everything about everything.
At first, Tiresias really doesn't want to tell Oedipus what's up, and the seer advises the king to stop seeking the truth. Oedipus flips out and threatens him, though, and Tiresias finally tells the King that he's actually the murderer that he's looking for. Oedipus doesn't want to believe it, and he accuses Creon and Tiresias of being allied against him. Jocasta tries to comfort Oedipus, telling him that he couldn't be the killer because Laius was killed by robbers at a place where three roads meet.
Meanwhile, a messenger shows up from Corinth to let Oedipus know that Polybus has died. At first, Oedipus is relieved because he thinks this means he'll never fulfill the prophecy that he'll kill his father. The messenger totally bursts the King's bubble, though. It turns out that this guy is actually the shepherd who found Oedipus on the mountain and brought him to Corinth. So, now, Oedipus knows for sure that Polybus wasn't his real dad.
Jocasta, remembering the prophecy that made her abandon her son, puts it all together at this point. She begs Oedipus not to pursue the truth any further, but he insists. Next thing you know, the survivor of the attack shows up and confirms that Oedipus is the killer. In some versions, the survivor guy is also the dude who took baby Oedipus up on the mountain. The whole truth comes crashing down on Oedipus like a ton of bricks.
As if things weren't bad enough, Oedipus finds that Jocasta has hung herself. This makes him really go off the deep end, and he yanks a pin from her robe and stabs out his eyes.
After this, Creon exiles Oedipus and the blind man wanders the wilderness with only his dedicated daughter, Antigone, to guide him. Eventually, Oedipus and Antigone end up in a town called Colonus, which is just outside of Athens.
Oedipus is broken and old, and he's been told by a prophecy that he's meant to die here in a grove dedicated to the Erinyes aka the Furies. Just then, Ismene shows up and gives them some bad news from Thebes. It turns out that in Oedipus's absence, Polyneices and Eteocles have been sharing the rule of Athens. They'd agreed to switch off ruling Thebes every year. When the time came for Eteocles to step down, though, he refused and exiled his brother. So, Polyneices went off and married a princess whose dad had a big army, and now he's at the gates determined to take back the throne.
Creon shows up, representing Eteocles, and tries to convince the dying Oedipus to come back to Thebes to be buried, because a prophecy has said that wherever Oedipus is buried will be blessed. Polyneices shows up too and also tries to get Oedipus's blessing.
Oedipus tells them both to buzz off. In some versions, he curses his sons to kill each other in battle, because he feels like they neglected him all these years, unlike his devoted Antigone.
Creon takes Antigone and Ismene hostage to try and force Oedipus to do what he wants. Just in the nick of time, though, King Theseus of Athens steps in and saves the girls. Theseus grants asylum to Oedipus, allowing the old blind man to die in peace. His body is buried in secret somewhere near Athens, and the city receives his blessing. Theseus refuses, though, saying that nobody can ever know where Oedipus is buried. Antigone is super worried about the civil war between her brothers in Thebes, though, so she heads back home and Oedipus swears he will find and punish the man.
He summons Tiresias, the famous seer, to tell what he knows. But when they are old, in the evening of their life, they walk with a cane, on three feet. When Oedipus answered the riddle correctly, the Sphinx was so upset that she fainted and Oedipus went on into Thebes.
When he got there, the Thebans were very upset because somebody had killed their king, Laius. The idea of the Oedipus Complex is derived from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, during which Oedipus learned that he was cursed to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Creon orders Antigone buried alive in a tomb. Although Creon has a change of heart and tries to release Antigone , he finds she has hanged herself. Creon's son Haemon, who was in love with Antigone commits suicide with a knife, and his mother Queen Eurydice, also kills herself in despair over her son's death.
Because of a curse put on them by their father Oedipus , the two sons did not share the rule peacefully and died as a result, killing each other in battle for control over Thebes. BookRags, Antigone Oedipus' sons, Eteocles and Polyneices , were both too prideful because they both wanted the power that came from taking over the throne at Thebes.
As a result, it led to both of their self-destructions, as they killed each other in a battle for power. Oedipus complex , in psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial stage in the normal developmental process.
Sigmund Freud introduced the concept in his Interpretation of Dreams Upon his death, Eteocles was succeeded by his uncle, Creon. It is not quite clear why Ares is being called responsible for this plague , since there is no other such reference in the play. Hamlet has an Oedipus complex and there is much evidence for it. Throughout the play, there are several hints that the young prince suffers from the Oedipus complex.
This also reveals the need for Hamlet in his mother's life. Although Hamlet does love his mother, he is able to fall in love with Ophelia. What does Oedipus tell his daughters? Category: music and audio gospel music. Oedipus asks his daughters to pray that they may have a better life than his.
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