All 3 Uses of
wrath
in
Oedipus the King
- See that ye give effect to all my hest, For my sake and the god's and for our land, A desert blasted by the wrath of heaven.†
*wrath = extreme anger
- JOCASTA Let me too, I adjure thee, know, O king, What cause has stirred this unrelenting wrath.†
- Then, lady,—thou shalt hear the very truth—As I drew near the triple-branching roads, A herald met me and a man who sat In a car drawn by colts—as in thy tale—The man in front and the old man himself Threatened to thrust me rudely from the path, Then jostled by the charioteer in wrath I struck him, and the old man, seeing this, Watched till I passed and from his car brought down Full on my head the double-pointed goad.†
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment