Which of the following is the best definition for stream of consciousness?

having complete and total awareness, understanding, or knowledge, as in an omniscient narrator

in literature, the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of a character as they occur; ongoing unedited and unorganized conscious experience through the mind

a narrator who makes the reader think of him or her as undependable or untrusting by saying things that are not true or that are unclear

What is the significance of the above statement in relation to the play’s conclusion? oedipus treats his inferiors poorly but ultimately grants them the same respect he grants to nobility. while teiresias appears to be mocking oedipus, the real message is one of warning about the forces working against the king. oedipus earns great fame for answering the riddle of the sphinx but ultimately loses his crown to a common man. just as oedipus is unable to conceive that he has done wrong in the past, he is unable to imagine that his enviable position is impermanent.