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Oedipus: King Creon
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In this first scene, Oedipus seems outwardly the ideal king, revealing his intelligence, responsibility, and energy—attributes that Athenians prized as their own particular virtues. But his overly eager insistence that Creon announce the oracle’s words publicly betrays a certain arrogance about his abilities.
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Ismene and Antigone: Oedipus's young daughters who are led out at the end of the play. Oedipus laments the fact that they will never find husbands with such a cursed lineage and begs Creon to take care of them.
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Oedipus on one hand is kind, and caring towards his people. For example he speaks to the people in a straight forward way, and he feels the pain of the people. Due to this he can't sleep, he cries, and walks at night thinking about an answer. He replies by saying “Sick as you are, not one is sick as I, each of you suffers in himself…but my spirit Groans for the city, for myself, for you”. Another characteristic about Oedipus is that he asks questions in a determined way and specific ones when he speaks to Creon. Oedipus is ... a person that is denial, he may also be stubborn, arrogant, aggressive, and doesn't listen and is quick to judge. After 20 years from exile Oedipus finds himself near Athens where he must fulfill the end of the prophecy from the oracle. He now is a weary old man, and shows a different personality that he used to have. He has now become a humble man yet still holding the one thing keeping together which is his pride.
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In the Greek play by Sophocles, Laius, king of Thebes, is told by an oracle that he would be killed by his son and so leaves Oedipus out on the mountainside to die. Oedipus is rescued by a shepherd and taken to the king of Corinth who raises him as a son.
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The priests of Thebes appear before Oedipus as suppliants, entreating him to find some end to the plague. Oedipus has already sent Creon to Delphi, who arrives to report that the killer of Laius must be sought out and banished. Oedipus vows to find the killer and summons the people of the city.
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The storyline continues in Oedipus at Colonus, which features the blind former king as a shattered old man. His daughter, Antigone, is his loyal companion. Wandering together, they come upon a sacred grove that is protected by the Furies, who are ... known as the Eumenides—the protectors of Athens.
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