Oedipus The King: Scene Analysis

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The model I have created recreates the scene where Oedipus frames Creon of treason and Jocasta steps in to calm both sides down. The scene portrays a great significance of Oedipus’s flaws, which leads to his downfall. Once Oedipus becomes angry from what he is told from Teiresias, he decides to frame Creon of something that never happened, which was that he was trying to overthrow him as the king by ordering Teiresias to tell him (Oedipus) that the prophecy was true. Once Jocasta calms both of them down, Oedipus calls for the herdsman, the only survivor from Laius’s party to confront him. What he did not know was that calling the herdsman led to the tragedy that resulted in him being blinded and exiled from Thebes forever. The color symbolism

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