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Oedipus learns more about the prophecy and King Lauis' death, with a little help from his on-stage-Greek-chorus friends. It's becoming clear he may have played a role in killing his own father and just didn't even know it.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in What if it's the king
- 00:07
Ah la shmoop So basically edifice decides that he needs
- 00:14
more information quinn and he sets out to find it
- 00:17
Ok And that's like the question The story Yeah exactly
- 00:21
Ed abyss in his quest to find more information talks
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- 00:24
to chri on his brother in law Creon says that
- 00:29
in order to lift the curse he has to figure
- 00:31
out who killed leia Ce of previous king got names
- 00:35
The king was murdered And no one knows how ed
- 00:38
abyss who in a different story was off saving the
- 00:42
city by figuring out the riddle of the sphinx mose
- 00:45
that he's not supposed to ask about the murder but
- 00:49
decides to anyway So oedipus in order to figure out
- 00:54
what has happened basically begs anyone with information to come
- 00:58
forward he's looking for ordinary people He's also perhaps looking
- 01:02
for a profit We might have someone sight into what
- 01:05
has happened in the past So does he find a
- 01:07
profit So after a while he does learn that he
- 01:12
might be implicated in killing the former king He doesn't
- 01:16
believe this that he wants more information despite the fact
- 01:19
that the chorus insists that it's not going to be
- 01:24
to his benefit And can he hear the choruses Warnings
- 01:28
Yeah the courses on stage in a greek tragedy the
- 01:32
chorus you can think of it as the town's people
- 01:35
or people who might already be in the setting But
- 01:39
then they appear together as one voice and they speak
- 01:44
to the main characters but they also speak to the
- 01:46
audience sort of like an omnipresent on ammunition narrator but
- 01:52
actually on stage got it So how is it possible
- 01:55
for him to have killed somebody without knowing it That
- 01:58
is the key question atavus has killed people in the
- 02:02
past remember he's a warrior he's worked hard to save
- 02:06
this city and several years ago he did kill a
- 02:09
man at a crossroads s o there's a chance that
- 02:14
he could have killed the king Just he didn't know
- 02:16
it at the time So can you explain to a
- 02:18
sort of the role of the prophecy and the story
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is this a device that was commonly used in place
- 02:24
of the time Sure yeah the prophecy does come up
- 02:27
quite often in greek tragedies just because they're concerned with
- 02:32
what people can know and what they can't know what
- 02:35
they don't know What's really and what is sort of
- 02:38
mystical or controlled by the gods In this case the
- 02:42
prophecy is sort of of a political device as well
- 02:46
Edda piss doesn't believe any of the prophecies that he
- 02:49
gets from tyreese Ius How the blind prophet Instead he
- 02:54
accuses his brother in law creon of making the whole
- 02:57
thing up and planting teresi s in order to usurp
- 03:02
his throne What role does the chorus play in greek 00:03:08.655 --> [endTime] tragedies Explain the significance of prophecies
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