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Oedipus confronts Jocasta about the prophecy and learns that it has in fact come true. What could be a more awkward family dinner conversation when you've killed your own father and married your mother?
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in What if it's the king
- 00:07
Ah la shmoop Ed abyss decides to continue to go
- 00:14
to the source Dacosta his wife is a really important
- 00:18
source because if it's true that he's married his mother
- 00:21
then dacosta must be his mother So he goes and
Full Transcript
- 00:24
talks to her jj acosta and last had a son
- 00:28
Then they received a prophecy that the sun would kill
- 00:31
laos and marriage acosta so they said oh god no
- 00:36
and got rid of the baby s o she feels
- 00:39
pretty confident that that little baby could not be at
- 00:43
abyss who's currently standing in front of her So does
- 00:46
he accept what she says is the truth Key seems
- 00:50
to believe her and that's one of the key things
- 00:53
about this play We don't know what out of us
- 00:56
really believes or not If atavus really believes in the
- 01:00
prophecy then it doesn't make sense for him to keep
- 01:03
asking questions about it You think you could kind of
- 01:06
just he was just kind of lay low and wait
- 01:09
to see what would happen next More maybe run away
- 01:12
or try to escape it The fact that he stays
- 01:14
and keeps asking questions could mean a couple of things
- 01:17
he could want Hot believe in the prophecy at all
- 01:19
or a part of him could believe him And he
- 01:21
just dying of curiosity even even if it's going to
- 01:25
hurt him in the end So what are his next
- 01:27
steps after speaking to his wife So at this point
- 01:29
in the play a messenger shows up from corrine and
- 01:33
says that the king of corrine who is edifices father
- 01:36
has just died of natural causes obviously that's a relief
- 01:39
to ed abyss because he now knows he didn't kill
- 01:43
his father that's great Unfortunately what then happens is that
- 01:49
the messenger reveals that the king of corrine is not
- 01:52
edifices natural father and pete hell's abyss that the king
- 01:57
and queen of corrine adopted him him as a child
- 02:01
when he was left stranded in the wilderness There was
- 02:06
a shepherd who found him on the wilderness and delivered
- 02:08
him to corrine and he's learned that that shepherd was
- 02:11
still alive So edifice has that sheppard brought him for
- 02:16
another conversation And so what does the shepherd tell a
- 02:19
typist Shepherd really doesn't want to talk Like most people
- 02:23
in this play he really doesn't want to talk but
- 02:26
eventually after his hand is twisted by at abuses Servants
- 02:31
He reveals that yes the baby was from dacosta Edifice
- 02:36
is acosta's son The man he killed of crossroads was
- 02:40
most likely his original father and that he went on
- 02:45
to marry his mother What do you do This information
- 02:50
Well What makes joe kostya believed that she could not
- 02:58
have married her son How did edifice come to know 00:03:02.31 --> [endTime] the king and queen of korans
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