Oedipus Rex An Amazing Play Written By Sophocles

Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex is an amazing play written by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex is about a king who can visually see but in reality he is blind, which then leads to him becoming physically blind in the end of the play, because he no longer wants to see the hurt and pain he’s caused himself. The play says, â€Å"No more shall you look on the misery about me, the horrors of my own doing!† (Sophocles Exodos lines 46-47). Also the play tells us that he kills his father and is married to his mother. In this essay the role of blindness is very ironic to me because Oedipus picked on a blind character named Teiresias when in the end he becomes blind. The play says â€Å"You sightless, witless, senseless, mad old man† (Sophocles Scene One line 154). Oedipus is a king and in the beginning some people would think he has everything going for himself but in reality Oedipus is just a lost man. Oedipus is lost because he really doesn’t know who he is, he doesn’t know his parents he’s just lost in the world. The play says, â€Å"My parents again! Wait; who are my parents† (Sophocles Scene One line 221). Also in Scene One Teiresias says, â€Å"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth! I know this well, but did not act on it; else I should not have come† (Sophocles Scene One lines 101-103). With that being said he knew all the painful things that were going to happen to Oedipus but he kept quiet. I mean who could blame him if I knew anything aboutShow MoreRelatedSophocles The Golden Age1864 Words   |  8 PagesSophocles was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius which is now a part of Athens, Greece, he was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. Sophocles was the son of Laius and Jocasta, both wealthy in the city that Sophocles grew up in. Luckily, He was the son of a wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the perks of a successful Greek empire. Sophocles was provided wi th the best education which would help him in many ways in the future of his life. He studied the arts. By sixteen, heRead MoreThe Influence Of Renaissance Theatres1891 Words   |  8 PagesPalladio got to work designing the theatre in late 1579 and early 1580. The purpose of the theatre was for the Vicenza Academia Olimpia to stage theatrical performances. The first play that was going to be performed at the newly designed theatre was, Oedipus Rex, which was written by the brilliant and well-known Sophocles. The Academia Olimpia was founded by non-other than Palladio himself in 1555. The group that he founded was full of people who were artists, musicians, and scholars. The theatreRead Moretheme of alienation n no where man by kamala markandeya23279 Words   |  94 Pagesagainst the background of the Oedipus legend. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and the father of Laius, whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother, Jocasta, as well as the double fratrici de of Eteocles and Polynices. Furthermore, Antigone dies after defying King Creon. The play is set in Thebes, a powerful city-state north of Athens. Although the play itself was written in 441 B.C., the legendRead MoreThe Renaissance and It’s Affect on William Shakespeare’s Works2369 Words   |  10 PagesIt’s very easy to see William Shakespeare as an amazing literary genius who had a perspective on life that, to simply put it, no one else has ever had. However Shakespeare was the product of the English Renaissance. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement spanning from the later 15th century until the early 17th century, it is associated with the Italian Renaissance which started in the 14th century. Like most of northern Europe, England did not get the full effect of the RenaissanceRead MoreRay Bradbury s Fahrenheit 4514443 Words   |  18 Pagesa person with corrupt values exploiting others for their own selfish needs. They put their desires above everyone else’s and usually exploits the purity or innocence of another, thinking they matter more. In The Most Dangerous Game, a short story written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is of Russian nobility and fled to an island when the communists took over Russia. He would mislead ships so people could wash up on his island. When a hunter named Rainsford, washes up on his island, he gives theRead MoreDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pagesprior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc., Permissions Department, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. Many of the designations by manufacturers and seller to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations