Oedipus The King Pages 157-161 [9/30/2011]

Today I read pages 157-161 of Oedipus The King. Creon felt really bad about the charges that Oedipus publicly gave to him. Creon really wanted a chance to talk to Oedipus but Oedipus didn't really want to listen to anything he had to say and just kept on yelling at him and insisting that Creon really was trying to kill him and become king.

"You-here? You have the gall

to show your face before the palace gates?

You, plotting to kill me, kill the king-

I see it all, the marauding thief himself

scheming to steal my crown and power!"

Creon even tells Oedipus that he should go to Delphi himself and see if he really went there and if he reported the message he gave him word for word. If he hadn't, he told Oedipus that he can go ahead and arrest him or execute him. Creon was trying to keep Oedipus from ruling unjustly because Oedipus wants to charge him but he has no facts to prove that he did what Oedipus said he did. Oedipus is just using what he thinks and what he came up with himself to make a ruling which isn't fair at all.

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