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Updated: June 1, 2025
Jocasta, hearing from the Corinthian stranger that Polybus, King of Corinth, the reputed father of Oedipus, is dead, sends for her husband to tell him that the oracle which doomed him to parricide is defeated, since Polybus has died a natural death.
Solon made no law against, parricide, supposing it impossible any one could be guilty of it; and the Persians, from the same opinion, adjudged all who killed their reputed parents to be bastards: and although parental, be yet stronger than filial affection, we admit saticide proved on the most equivocal testimony, whilst they rejected all proof of an act, certainly not more repugnant to nature, as of a thing impossible, improvable.
I will force him to annihilate me; I will so provoke his fury that he may utterly destroy me. Tell me which are the greatest sins which excite him to the most terrible wrath? MOSER. I know but two. But men do not commit these, nor do men even dream of them. FRANCIS. What are they? Parricide is the name of the one; fratricide of the other. Why do you turn so suddenly pale? FRANCIS. What, old man?
And after all, if a man really deem his mother-country in some danger, inaction is not philosophy, but a species of parricide.
However, when he came to suffer that death which was appointed him by Law, he did not stick to acknowledge that execrable parricide which he had projected, as well as carried into execution; so that when the news reached Paris, it occasioned universal joy that not one of these bloody villains had escaped, but were so wonderfully cut off, when they themselves fancied the danger to be over.
Such was this distracting paragraph. 'Good God! exclaimed Waverley, 'am I then a parricide? Impossible! My father, who never showed the affection of a father while he lived, cannot have been so much affected by my supposed death as to hasten his own; no, I will not believe it, it were distraction to entertain for a moment such a horrible idea.
Shame upon you, parricide." This time Benedetto opened his eyes in terror, and in a faint voice murmured: "My mother! Yes, yes. Mercy!" Monte-Cristo rose. His gaze met that of Bertuccio, in which he read a silent question. "Are you still going to be charitable?" asked Bertuccio's eye. "The wretch has murdered the mother who bore him? Does he deserve mercy?"
I have been robbed, deceived, tortured, morally slapped, dishonored, all this to a greater degree than those whose anger you excuse. "I revenged myself, I killed. It was my legitimate right. I took their happy life in exchange for the terrible one which they had forced on me. "You will call me parricide!
When a man takes an oath by the side of a dead woman, and that woman his mother, he generally means to keep it! And I most resolutely meant to kill my father and make of myself a parricide. But I considered my mother had been murdered too socially and morally and I judged my vengeance just.
It would not be so, even if it contained principles evidently contrary to experience opposed to good sense. Indeed, what would result from a work that should now tell us the sun is not luminous; that parricide is legitimate; that robbery is allowable; that adultery is not a crime?
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