Question

“Oedipus Rex”: What does the following passage reveal mainly about Oedipus?

“OEDIPUS: Yea, I am wroth, and will not stint my words,
But speak my whole mind. Thou methinks thou art he,
Who planned the crime, aye, and performed it too,
All save the assassination; and if thou
Hadst not been blind, I had been sworn to boot
That thou alone didst do the bloody deed.”

Question 19 options:

a)
He is willing to suspend judgement until evidence is found of Laius’s killer.

b)
He is the type to blame himself when things go wrong.

c)
He is selfless and not the kind to take things personally.

d)
His wounded pride and offense have made him behave angrily.

Answer 1

Answer: D

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

d) His wounded pride and offense have made him behave angrily.

Explanation

When analyze old literature, it is often useful to find the meaning of the archaic words first:

Worth = angry

Stint = insufficient amount of something (in this case words)

Thou = you

Art = are

Hadst = have

didst = did

As you can see now, In the first sentence the archaism "wroth" means angry; so he is basically angrily accusing tow people of a crime without much of a proof.

Let's confirm our inference contrasting it against the given options:

Since he is already emitting a judgement, we can rule out option a.

Since he is directly blaming others, we can rule out option b as well.

Since he can't even control his own temper, he can't be selfless (at the moment at least); therefore, we can rule out option c.

We can conclude that the correct answer is option d: His wounded pride and offense have made him behave angrily.