... contemptuously. Creon makes a final appeal that he will tell her the story he alone knows. Antigone sits. He asks her to remember her childhood?how her brothers would torment her and then, when they were older, they would come home late in evening clothes and smoking cigarettes. She must ... have known they were making her parents unhappy. Staring outward, Antigone recalls how a handsome Polynices once gave her a paper nightclub flower; Creon knows she must have looked to it for courage last night. Polynices, however, was ... relents. "At last," cries Antigone, and the Guards take her ...

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... her a son to get her fresh children, shamefully. So wept she for her bridal's double woe husband of husband got, and child of child . And there we saw Jocasta. By a noose of swaying cords, caught and entwined, she hung. He [Oedipus] too has seen her - with a moaning cry looses the hanging ... of shields occur almost at the end of the play. (Act 5, Sc. 2), his shields fall when he tells to Horatio that how his life is going along: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge Now whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely ... love an...

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... I pray to God - / Whether it be a lurking thief, or one of a number - / I pray that that man's life be consumed in evil and wretchedness." When we know the truth that Oedipus is the killer he speaks of, this statement becomes very ironic. Oedipus puts himself as his worst enemy, as he says later, "I think that I ... The Choragos tells Oedipus, "You were better off dead than alive and blind." The use of irony in Oedipus Rex reveals much about the character of Oedipus. We see that Oedipus truly is the 'public' man and can only possess one sight, that of the 'public' world. This public perso...

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