Friday, April 22, 2011
My view of "Oedipus the King"
"Oedipus the King" was a perfect example of if it could happen it would. I personally had a difficult time following the play. It seemed to move very slow to me. The pace of the play too on a whole new meaning after the retrieval of the old herdsman by the messengers. The play took lighting speed at that point. It was tragic to say the least. To have been sent to be killed by your mother, then left abandoned with a chance to have a wonderful life. A couple takes you in, you grow up and for what to meet your wife/mother. Then as a leader you attempt to right a wrong just to find you are the cause of the treacherous fate. It just seems such a twist of fate. Impossible to know that he could possibly be the guilty one, as prophesied. This play justifies the phrase " if it was meant to be, it will be".
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! I didn't really think about the fact that Oedipus was abandoned by his real parents because of a chance he might fulfill some prophecy! In such a short time this tragic character has so much opened to him. It's no wonder he tore his eyes out!
ReplyDeleteThe way our society has became this twisted play could actually become real. So many children do not know their real fathers or mothers for that fact anymore. They could end up growing up and marrying their relatives without even knowing. I have been in childcare for 13 years and the amount of children that will never know their roots in tremendous! History does have a way of repeating itself!
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