Tuesday, 19 June 2018

How does the chorus respond to Jocasta's judgment of the oracle in Sophocles's Oedipus the King?

says,


Loxias said expressly [that Laius] was doomed
To die by my
child's hand, but he, poor babe,
He shed no blood, but perished first
himself.
So much for divination. Henceforth I
Will look for signs neither to
right nor left.

She believes that all will be well yet
forbecause Apollo's oracle said that Laius would be killed by his son, and she believes that her
son died as an infant on a mountain long ago. Therefore, she says, she will no longer trust in
oracles or prophecies. Theresponds with some concern, saying,


My lot be still to lead
The life of innocence and fly
Irreverence in
word or deed,
To follow still those laws ordained on high
Whose birthplace is
the bright ethereal sky
No mortal birth they own,
Olympus their progenitor
alone.

In other words, thesays that it has a duty to
continue to lead a life of innocence and piety, and they will not act or speak irreverently asit
is impliedJocasta has done. They will continue to trust the gods and the gods' laws...

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