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Thank you We sneak in What if it's the king

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Ah la shmoop So basically edifice decides that he needs

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more information quinn and he sets out to find it

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Ok And that's like the question The story Yeah exactly

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Ed abyss in his quest to find more information talks

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to chri on his brother in law Creon says that

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in order to lift the curse he has to figure

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out who killed leia Ce of previous king got names

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The king was murdered And no one knows how ed

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abyss who in a different story was off saving the

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city by figuring out the riddle of the sphinx mose

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that he's not supposed to ask about the murder but

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decides to anyway So oedipus in order to figure out

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what has happened basically begs anyone with information to come

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forward he's looking for ordinary people He's also perhaps looking

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for a profit We might have someone sight into what

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has happened in the past So does he find a

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profit So after a while he does learn that he

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might be implicated in killing the former king He doesn't

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believe this that he wants more information despite the fact

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that the chorus insists that it's not going to be

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to his benefit And can he hear the choruses Warnings

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Yeah the courses on stage in a greek tragedy the

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chorus you can think of it as the town's people

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or people who might already be in the setting But

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then they appear together as one voice and they speak

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to the main characters but they also speak to the

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audience sort of like an omnipresent on ammunition narrator but

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actually on stage got it So how is it possible

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for him to have killed somebody without knowing it That

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is the key question atavus has killed people in the

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past remember he's a warrior he's worked hard to save

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this city and several years ago he did kill a

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man at a crossroads s o there's a chance that

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he could have killed the king Just he didn't know

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it at the time So can you explain to a

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sort of the role of the prophecy and the story

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is this a device that was commonly used in place

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of the time Sure yeah the prophecy does come up

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quite often in greek tragedies just because they're concerned with

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what people can know and what they can't know what

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they don't know What's really and what is sort of

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mystical or controlled by the gods In this case the

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prophecy is sort of of a political device as well

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Edda piss doesn't believe any of the prophecies that he

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gets from tyreese Ius How the blind prophet Instead he

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accuses his brother in law creon of making the whole

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thing up and planting teresi s in order to usurp

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