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Groans for the city prologue lines 64 66.
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I thought it wrong my children to hear the truth from others messengers.
His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours because the oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him.
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Here i am myself you all know me the world knows my fame.
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Oedipus speaks these lines which show that he is deeply tormented by the news that the city is under attack from a mysterious plague.
It s the basis for sigmund freud s psychoanalytical theory appropriately named the oedipus complex as freud notes of oedipus in his seminal work the interpretation of dreams.
The greeks believed that a person s fate is inescapable and attempting to intervene may jeopardize their own lives.
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Memory and the past.
Comment on oedipus last speech in oedipus rex if you mean his actual last line in the play it is do not take them from me.
Oedipus addresses the people of thebes in this opening passage which right away sets up the paradigm of dramatic irony sophocles employs throughout the work.
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