Oedipus The King Persuasive Speech

As it look that the King may never recover, the monarch rebel by refusing to take his medicine and throwing away anything he could get his hands on. During nights, “he was almost unmanageable, and pages had to sit on him while he was tied to his bed. By day, he swore, uttering strange indecencies and ‘oaths which had never yet been heard from the lips’, begging his attendants to put an end to his miserable life. Moods of deep depression alternated with spasms of childish mischievousness in which he would get his pages to wheel him about the room or he would lie on his bed to ‘defend himself by gathering up his feet, and then darting them forward with violence against those who pressed against him’.” However, the nail that seal the coffin to …show more content…
Between December through January, the Prince was in discussion with the House of Lords and Commons on how he would run the regency. In the last debate, it was proposed by the Duchess of Devonshire in William Pitt’s Bill that if the Prince became Regent, he will have limited authority, “even with regard to the disposition of the Royal Household, since the King was to be entrusted to the care of the Queen.” At first, the Prince refused the proposal, “but he had, in the end, to accept the fact that, if he were to be Regent, he would have to be so on Pitt’s terms. On 12 February 1789, Pitt’s Regency Bill passed the Commons, and were on the point of passing it also when unexpected news arrived from Kew.” Simultaneously, “While the British parliament hesitated, the Irish parliament voted (19 Feb. 1789) to ask the prince to assume the regency of