Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…
Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Oedipus the King: (4-6 good sentences): Not if you will reflect on it as I do. Consider first, if you think anyone would choose to rule and fear rather than rule and sleep untroubled by a fear if power were equal in both cases. I, at least, I was not born with such a frantic yearning to be a king–but to do what kings do. And so it is with everyone who has learned wisdom and self-control. As it stands now, the prizes are all mine–and without fear.
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