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Often appears with: self-condemnation · religious persecution and toleration · incest and kin-marriage · family guilt · exile, wandering, and banishment · crime and punishment · blindness and suffering · banishment
Usually: speech or oration (1) · confronting death (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1) · resignation (1)
Oedipus, blind and condemned by his own decree, refuses to debate his punishment, curses his forced exile and incestuous fate, and begs Creon either to hide, kill, or banish him while claiming responsibility for the guilt.
CHORUS. I cannot say that thou hast counseled well, For thou wert better dead than living blind. OEDIPUS. What’s done was well done. Thou canst never shake My firm belief. A truce to argument. For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes I could have met my father in the shades, Or my poor mother, since against the twain I sinned, a sin no gallows could atone. Aye, but, ye say, the sight of children joys A parent’s e…