I found this play very hard to understand. I turned off the phone and TV, closed out facebook, run everybody off and put the dogs up so there were no distractions. Then read, re-read and re-read until a light bulb dimly shined.
The problem was; understanding that Oedipus did not realize he was the killer!! The assumption crept in slowly, that this may be the answer, then I ruled it out, then I believed it again. It is obvious he knew he had killed at the cross roads?- did not question whom it may have been?? Maybe I assumed he knew he was adopted before he realized that he was the killer. He talked as if he knew; "if it were I", " I will dispel the stain", and speaks of his kinship? Puzzling to me!! Then you can sense paranoia and a desire to make things rite when Oedipus speaks.
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