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Pg 10
Chorus: “will you send doom like a sudden cloud, or weave it like nightfall of the past”
- here, the chorus makes an allusion to the fact that Oedipus’ fate will develop in multiple stages. The net will not just fall on Oedipus, instead it will be intricately tangled and when the net is “completely woven”, Oedipus will be doomed.
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Oedipus: Tell me: are you speaking for Creon, or for yourself?
Tiresias: Creaon is no threat. You weave your own doom.
*there is a negative connotation with the word doom.
- Basically Tiresias is saying to Oedipus that he cannot escape his fate. His situation has nothing to do with Creon, and Creon has no effect on Oedipus’ situation. Only Oedipus “weaves his own doom” and can make his fate worse.
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Oedipus: Ah, what net has God been weaving for me.
- Now Oedipus begins to question himself. He realizes that there is a higher power at work here and that along with his own descions and the fate the God’s has chosen for him, he is getting woven into a more tangled web.
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Strophe 2: Haughtiness and the high hand of disdain / Tempt and outrage God’s holy law; / And any mortal who dares hold / No immortal Power in awe / Will be caught up in a net of pain: / The price for which his levity is sold. / Let each man take due earnings, then / And keep his hands from holy things, / And from blasphemy stand apart- /Else the crackling blast of heaven / Blows on his head, and on his desperate heart; / Though fools will honor impious men, / In their cities no tragic poet sings.
- This part of the chorus highlights the fact that anyone who trys to exert power they do not have, in particular someone who asserts power over the Gods, will be punished. This is evident in Oedipus’ life because Oedipus’ tragic flaw is hubris. He thinks he is mighty and above the Gods’ fate. As we see in the end, tragedy fills Oedipus’ life.