read Oedipus the King
Answer the question after read this play. PDF of the book is in the link https://yale.imodules.com/s/1667/images/gid6/editor_documents/malafronte/sophocles_oedipus_the_king_trans_fagles.pdf?sessionid=41112866-a7c4-4a8c-8b1c-8e545dc086ba&cc=1.
Questions1) Interpret the continuity between these two quotes:
Oedipus: “My children/ I pity you. I see–how could I fail to see/ what longings bring you here? Well I know/ you are sick to death, all of you,/ but sick as you are, not one is sick as I” (162).
Creon: “Apollo commands us–he was quite clear–‘Drive the corruption from the land,/ don’t harbor it any longer, past all cure,/ don’t nurse it in your soil–root it out!’” (164).
2) Choose a passage that stood out to you, and analyze its meaning in the context of the drama.
