CHORUS: Oedipus, why has left the race this woman, prey to cruel pain? I'm terrified, lest perhaps this silence then blow echoes of doom.
OEDIPUS: Let him do what he wants to jump! But I continue in my desire to know my ancestry however humble [...]
try for a moment forget the psychoanalytic interpretations of the Oedipus myth and talk about what Sophocles Oedipus by mouth shows. Because the myth of Oedipus tells us about the truth, his search, the pain it can cause and that is intolerable sin give up to find it.
The plague is upon Thebes and Oedipus, the king of the city, has a mission to find out the cause of the ills that are folded over their subjects. Questioned, get advice, research, and the truth is emerging slowly. We know that Oedipus while the details of the cause of that divine punishment. We assist first fear, then horror, how the figure of blame is going profiling, slowly but inexorably. Oedipus knows, maybe he senses much earlier, will recognize their own traits, fuzzy at first, sharp end, the only responsible for the plague that ravaged the city. Despite all this Oedipus wants to know the truth, whatever the cost.
Oedipus attitude contrasts with that of Jocasta, his wife, his mother. In the same way that Oedipus, she too is watching the horrifying truth unfolds before your eyes. Why not leave if it is so horrible? Why the eagerness to get to know a truth that can burn?
JOCASTA: By the gods! If you care about something, however slightly, your own life that do not probe. There is enough suffering already with me.
Yes, well there are already suffering with me, why increase the pain, let it as it is, not think about it and do not afflict us with doubt. Given the way events are taking far as to implore.
JOCASTA: Despite all my advice, please. Do not get into this.
OEDIPUS: I can not make the case, that no, in that no easily available information.
both know it. Will know what fruit research. Despite everything the Oedipus continues, and it does find a loophole, however minimal, finish saving it, no, Oedipus continues because the truth must be revealed, it is useless to flee from the truth. As Fate, Truth eventually reach their players as much as they endeavor to escape. Oedipus
just watching, just, the truth that they feared and that both have fought. Just seeing the sin that has always been known culprit. Jocasta, unable to face the truth, would rather die by his own hand before you reach. Oedipus has seen it all: the magnitude of his sin, the body of Jocasta. Need look no further, with a pin is wound in the eye. The truth, ugly, naked and stands triumphant over all, the plague of Thebes leaves, guilt expiated. Find his redemption Oedipus at Colonus, old and blind, the sole company of his daughter Antigone.
And here we are, suffering people of Thebes, overwhelmed by an infamous plague. Jocasta Fed will do nothing to ever know the truth, although it away with them, hoping to Oedipus that never comes. No matter, the Truth, and Destiny, always just to reach to their protagonists.
Valencia, January 3, 2007. Those brief moments at noon, pleasantly warm, are worth their weight in gold. Are the advantages of living in the Mediterranean, as Sophocles.
Remember Rubalcaba this March 13? Vox missa Nescit reversed.
