俄狄浦斯

展示了富有典型意义的希腊悲剧

冲突——人跟命运的冲突。

剧作家无法摆脱当时浓重的命运观念，

使

俄狄浦斯

逃

脱不了体现命运的太阳

神“神示”的罗网。但他对命运抱有强烈的不

满情绪，

认为

俄狄浦斯

并不是有意杀父娶母，

反而是一个为民

除害的英雄、受 人爱戴的君王。俄狄浦斯智慧超群，热爱邦国，大公无私。在命

运面前，

他不是俯首帖耳或苦苦哀求，

而是奋起抗争，

设法逃离 “神示”的预言。

继而，他猜破女妖的谜语，为民除了害。最后，为了解救人民的瘟疫灾 难，他不

顾一切地追查杀害前王的凶手，

一旦真相大白，

又勇于承担责任，

主动请求将他

放逐。

对于这样一个为人民、

为国家做了无数好事的英雄所遭受的厄运，

剧作家

深感愤慨，

发出了对神的正义性的怀 疑，

控诉命运的不公和残酷，

赞扬主人公在

跟命运斗争中所表现出来的坚强意志和英雄行为。

因此，

尽 管结局是悲惨的，

但

这种明知“神示”不可违而违之的精神，< /p>

正是对个人自主精神的肯定，

是

雅典

奴

隶主民主派先进思想意识的反映。

索幅克勒斯的

《俄狄浦斯王》

第三场，

报信人原想解脱俄狄浦斯的厄运而说了一番安慰的话，

但由于揭示了 神祇的秘密，

结果却把俄狄浦斯推进毁灭的深渊。

报信人这个行 动的结果出人

意外地导致了剧情的突转。

D

ramatis Personae

OEDIPUS

THE PRIEST OF ZEUS

CREON CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS

TEIRESIAS

JOCASTA

MESSENGER

HERD OF LAIUS

Content summary

:

Acclaimed

for

over,2000

years

for

its

ingeniously

constructed

plot

and

extraordinary

insight

into

the

drama

of

human

experience,Sophocles'masterpiece

is

revealed

in

all

its

riveting

intensity

in

this

translation

by

Bernard

is

the

provocative

tale of a great man hurtling toward his own destruction-a story of pride and

power,incest and murder,which has never ceased to debate.

Some fifteen years previously,OEDIPUS,then a young man,was told by the Oracle at

Delphi that he was destined to murder his father and marry his mother. Shocked, he

determines never to go back to Corinth, where he was brought up by the king and

queen,who he thinks are his father and mother. His wandering bring him eventually

to the city of Thebas,where his real father and mother r,on the way,

he brawls with an old man in a carriage over right of way and in a fit of temper

kills

him.

Arrived

at

Thebas,

he

finds

the

city

in

am

uproar:the

king,LAIUS,has

gone

on a mysterious journey and never returned, and a female monster, the Sphinx, has

taken up her position on a rock outside thebas and is strangling the inhabitants

one by one for not being able to answer her S answes the riddle and

the Spjinx throws herself from her citizens, in gratitude ,make OEDIPUS

their king and he marries JOCASTA, their widowed queen. No one knows that JOCASTA

is OEDIPUS 's mother and that the old man he killed on the road was LAIUS, his

do

they

know

that

these

parents

of

his

had

tried

to

murder

him

as

a

baby,and

thought

they

had

succeeded.

There

follow

fifteen

years

of

apparent

prosperity:a

sham

prosperity

cloaking

corruption.

The

gods

are

disgusted.

Thebas

is

struck

by

plague.

The people of the city,led by their priests and elders, flock around the great and

successful OEDIPUS, now in teh prime of life and power. He saved them once: he can

save them again.

< br>底比斯国瘟疫盛行

,

天神宣告

,

只有杀害前王拉伊俄斯的凶手伏法

,

才 能消灾祛祸

.

前王外出

,

与卫兵一起遇害

,

至今不知凶手是谁

.

国王俄狄浦斯严厉诅咒凶手

,

并号令全国追查

.

先知却

说