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OEDIPUS THE KINGSophocles
Motifs
recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to
develop and inform the text’s major
themes
element that has symbolic
significance which is repeated as a
means of producing a theme or mood
Motifs versus Themes
MOTIFS THEMES
images, spoken or written phrases, structural or
stylistic devices, or other elements like sound,
physical movement, or visual components
a detail repeated for larger symbolic meaning,
whatever that meaning may be
message, statement, idea
motifs can be indirect ways to express the
gist or overall message of the story which is also called
as the theme
SUICIDE
In Sophocles' three Theban plays, namely Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, incest
motivates or indirectly brings about all of the deaths in these
plays.
JOCASTA
Jocasta hung herself in Oedipus the King when she found out the she married and
had four children with her own son.
OEDIPUS Oedipus inflicts horrible violence on
himself at the end of Oedipus the King, and willingly goes to his own mysterious death at the end of Oedipus at Colonus.
He inflicted it upon himself upon knowing that it is he who killed his own father and
wed his own mother
SIGHT AND BLINDNESS
the image of clear vision is used as a metaphor for knowledge and insight
very common in Greek lifestyle which was inherited by the English language
humans can demonstrate powers of foresight and great intellect but the plays
show that even the smartest human is liable to error
OEDIPUSfamed for quick comprehension and clear-sightedness [evident when he solved the
riddle of the Sphinx]
blind to the truth for many years and eventually blinds himself so as for him not
to see his own children
though blind, aging Oedipus acquired limited prophetic vision.
JOCASTA
Jocasta was also blind to the truth that she married and had children with her own son, who killed his first husband, King
Laius. At the end of the play, she resorted to suicide as the only solution to the
mistakes she have made.
TEIRESIAS/TIRESIAS/TEIRISIAS
"So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You [Oedipus] with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your
life...“(Oedipus the king, 469)
blind seer that can “see” better than most characters [Oedipus]
warned Oedipus not to seek Laius' killer but was provoked into exposing Oedipus
himself as the killer
GRAVES AND TOMBStraitors and people who murder their own relatives could not be buried within their city’s territory, but relatives still had an
obligation to bury them
burials represent the obligations that come from kinship, also the conflicts that arise between one’s duty to family and to
the city-state
OEDIPUS Oedipus cannot remain in Thebes or be buried within its territory, because of the
wrongdoings he has done
his choice to be buried at Colonus confers a great and mystical gift on all of Athens, promising that nation victory over future
attacker
OEDIPUS THE KING: MOTIFS
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