Monologue

Oedipus Monologue from Antigone

From Antigone by Sophocles

male · anguished · 52 sec

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Child of an old blind sire, Antigone, What region, say, whose city have we reached? Who will provide today with scanted dole This wanderer? ’Tis little that he craves, And less obtains—that less enough for me; For I am taught by suffering to endure, And the long years that have grown old with me, And last not least, by true nobility. My daughter, if thou seest a resting place On common ground or by some sacred grove, Stay me and set me down. Let us discover Where we have come, for strangers must inquire Of denizens, and do as they are bid.

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Oedipus, now blind and a wanderer, seeks a place of rest while grappling with his suffering and the consequences of his past actions.

60 and up · sadness · family · isolation · fate · suffering

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