I am trying to analyze these quotations of Oedipus the King, and I have to dig deeper, and go in depth on them. The analysis should be 4-5 sentences per/quotation.
1) Oedipus says, "Now my curse on the murderer, Whoever he is, / alone man unknown in his crime or one among many, let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step"
2). Jocasta said, "Stop- in the name of god, / if you love your life, call off this search! / My suffering is enough."
3) Oedipus replied, "Listen to you? No More. I must know it all, / I must see the truth at last"
4)Oedipus says, "What can I ever see? What love, what call of the heart/ can touch my ears with joy? Nothing, friends."
Thank You
You can start by writing some sentences about the context. To analyze each of these you can give a sentence to express the character's intention, etc. You can talk about what his emotions might be, what his reasons and emotions might be. After that, you can talk about why the writer of the play chose the particular words he chose. For each quote you can tell the meaning, the context, the reasons why the writer used the words he used, and then you can speculate about the implications and the ways these quotes might be meaningful for people in other situations. It's easy to write a lot about this sort of thing because you can write about what was said, why, how the character intended it, how the author intended it, and how people in different situations might interpret it. The trick is to come at it from a lot of different angles. :-)
