HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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What is ironic about Oedipus’s declaration of the curse against Laius’s murderer?
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The true murderer is already dead.
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Oedipus has no power to punish a foreign criminal.
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Oedipus is pronouncing his own doom.
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The Theban elders already know who the murderer is.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The declaration is an example of dramatic irony because he vows to find the murderer of his own father… he just doesn’t realize Laius is his father or that he is the murderer, as we do.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is ironic about Oedipus’s statement that he is a “stranger to the tale” and a “stranger to the crime"? It is ironic because he is in fact not a stranger to the tale nor to the crime because he is the one who committed the crime.
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