Oedipus Rex
Date Submitted: 05/08/2004 01:14:10
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 5 pages (1391 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 5 pages (1391 words)
Many Greek myths and legends have a valuable point or lesson which is revealed when told.
Each individual who hears it obtains a different meaning from what the author tries to throw out
to the audience or reader. In Oedipus Rex, one part of The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles,
there is a lesson of allowing life to take its course instead of steering it to your own advantage or
trying to prevent it from coming …
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…foreseen? A man should live only for the present day."11 This
statement is told by Iocaste to Oedipus when both thought that the prophecy was meant for his
parents in Corinth. It is true how Iocaste views this because no matter how one's life is it will
always be vulunerable to the Gods and at there mercy without it being acknowledged.
Therefore what is foreseen must follow through the entire road until it is completed.
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