Monologue

Chorus Monologue from Oedipus at Colonus

From Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

any · dramatic · 59 sec

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(Str. 1) Ha! Where is he? Look around! Every nook and corner scan! He the all-presumptuous man, Whither vanished? search the ground! A wayfarer, I ween, A wayfarer, no countryman of ours, That old man must have been; Never had native dared to tempt the Powers, Or enter their demesne, The Maids in awe of whom each mortal cowers, Whose name no voice betrays nor cry, And as we pass them with averted eye, We move hushed lips in reverent piety. But now some godless man, ’Tis rumored, here abides; The precincts through I scan, Yet wot not where he hides, The wretch profane! I search and search in vain.

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The Chorus searches for the elusive Oedipus, expressing their fear and reverence for the divine powers he has dared to confront, highlighting the tension between mortal and divine realms.

60 and up · fear · fate · isolation · power · death

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