Setting:
Characterization/Motivation/Conflict:
Oedipus:
Jocasta:
Creon:
Tiresias:
1
View of Oedipus:
Plans to save Thebes:
2
Significant Passages:
"Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no profit to its possessor"—Tiresias "So I shall fight for him as if he were my father"—Oedipus
"I say that without knowing it you are living in shameful intimacy with your nearest and dearest. You do not see the evil in which you live."—Tiresias "It has, except for you. You have no power or truth. You are blind, your ears and mind as well as eyes."—
Oedipus "Whether I do or not—I am in power here."—Oedipus
"There is no human being born that is endowed with prophetic power."—Jocasta
"I am dreadfully afraid the blind prophet could see. But tell me one more thing that will throw light on this."—Oedipus "You said his story was that several robbers killed Laius."—Oedipus 3