Examples Of Injustice In Sophocles Oedipus Rex

In the play Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles; there are many surprises that are sprung upon the main character and the reader at the same time. This play starts with the people of Thebes begging their King Oedipus to end the plague that is upon the land. They pray to the oracle of Apollo and asks what can be done to remove the plague. The oracle states that the sickness is the result of an injustice. This injustice is that the murderer of a previous King Laius still walks free. In hopes the murderer will be revealed, Oedipus summons the blind seer Teiresias and asks him to tell who murdered King Laius. Teiresias says that Oedipus is the murderer, and that he is living with the same blood he came from. Oedipus does not believe the blind seer and sends him away. His wife, Queen Jocasta
This pain would be his downfall. While he was outside of his house processing everything, his mother Jocasta went in and hung herself. Oedipus discovers this and uses the pins of her broaches to blind himself. When asked why he did not just kill himself, he states that he could not bear to face his mother and father in Hades. In my opinion, this play has many plot twists. Reading it while not being in the time of Sophocles really made me appreciate how much work and effort was put into it. Sophocles was a brilliant man who knew very well what he was creating, and how it would affect his audiences. I think that the people who viewed this play in its infancy were very much so shocked. Today, our media tends to cover broad aspects of many different things. I feel like in the time of Sophocles, there weren’t that many people experimenting and trying new things. They needed a play that would work and would be viewable by everyone. This play, i think was something very new for the time Sophocles wrote it. This concept and all of these plot twists were probably very different from other