Oedipus Rexsophocles

Title: Oedipus Rexsophocles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1537 | Pages: 6.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

Oedipus Rexsophocles

JOCASTA My lords look amazed to see your queen with wreaths and gifts of incense in her hands. I had a mind to visit the high shrines, for Oedipus is nervous, alarmed with various terrors. He will not use his past experience, like a man of sense, to judge the present need, but lends his ear to any croaker that argues. Since then my counsels don’t have an advantage, I turn to thee, our …showed first 75 words of 1537 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1537 total…my lineage, be it ne'er so low. It may be she with all a woman's pride Thinks scorn of my base parentage. But I Who rank myself as Fortune's favorite child, The giver of good gifts, shall not be shamed. She is my mother and the changing moons My brethren, and with them I wax and wane. Thus sprung why should I fear to trace my birth? Nothing can make me other than I am.

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