What role does the Chorus play at the beginning of Oedipus the King?

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anonymous · Answer

The Chorus is roughly like the peanut-gallery (it is even occasionally told to shut up). Sophocles uses this group of Thebans to comment on the play's action and to foreshadow future events. He also uses it to comment on the larger impact of the characters' actions and to expound upon the play's central themes. In Oedipus the King we get choral odes on everything from tyranny to the dangers of blasphemy.

Sophocles also uses the Chorus at the beginning of the play to help tell the audience the given circumstances of the play. We hear all about the terrible havoc that the plague is wreaking on Thebes.

anonymous · Answer

http://www.shmoop.com/oedipus-the-king/the-chorus.html

tkhunny · Answer

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