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Oedipus The King Homework help?
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 02:23 PM
Does anyone know the reason why Oedipus used Jocasta's brooch to blind himself? Was there a symbolic meaning behind it? Usually I wouldn't ask, but I'm really stuck in a slump right now.
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 03:27 PM
because he killed his father and married his mother, which equals to moral blindness
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 05:18 PM
Well I know that, :-p I mean whats the symbolic meaning of the brooch?
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 03:35 AM
Wasn't the broach what kept her eternally youthful? He could have blinded himself with that because it had made him blind to the true age and possible familial relationship between himself and his mother.
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