you and your high adventure. Lacking numbers,
powerful friends, out for the big game of empire-
you need riches, armies to bring that quarry down! (603-606).
Oedipus speaks to Creon in a very rude way, he speaks with a rude, selfish, and insecure tone. His grateful pride of the riches, the fame, and the royalty is causing his rude tone. Oedipus seems so sure of himself, he feels like his life will be perfect because he has all the fame and royalty. It’s absurd how he mentions “powerful friends” it makes me concern who exactly are his friends are, because it doesn’t seem like he has friends or even share his power and royalty with anyone except for his family, maybe. Or is his powerful friends, is his army? There is some strong diction within this quote, some that I found that stood out are, "high", "lacking", "powerful", "need riches". These words and phrases expresses the idea of social hierarchy how you need high power and riches to become high in power and lacking anything or anyone are people in the social hierarchy who are at the bottom such as the poor or lower class men. This is important to notice because his theme of comparing social statuses and bragging about them just seem rude.
Reader Response:
This major change of Oedipus attitude, actions, and goals make me dislike him now because what I imagined an ideal leader is protecting his country from harm which is for the whole country and not just himself. His rude actions to Creon just makes it even worse apart from his not acknowledging his murderous actions, killing his own father, and the fight with Tiresias making a fool out of himself in front of the whole city including the audience. The lack of great qualities of a leader will make the city and the people around him dislike him because he starts to care less about the main problem and focuses on his individual problems instead. Oedipus is also not setting a good example to the future leaders of Thebes and is just creating more problems and disasters in the future for Thebes and himself. I created a venn diagram that will acknowledge the similarities and differences between good leadership and Oedipus current leadership traits or abilities.
Oedipus Leadership Both Oedipus and Ideal Ideal Leadership
Traits Leadership Traits Traits
______________________|____________________________|______________________________
-Solve Riddles | -Courage | - Teamwork
-Talking back to people | -Care about your peers | - Role Model
- Blaming someone for | | - Responsibility
your problems | | - Making the right and careful
- Off track | | decisions
- Uneccessary | | -Avoiding disaster
| | - Quick thinking
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