Oedipus Rex Reaction Paper
Oedipus Rex
Please be reminded that I would not only base on the drama presented by the English 145 but also to the things I read.
Oedipus Rex is one, such tragic thought of Sophocles yet one that also deserves higher understanding. At first I didn’t really expect things to end like that.
One thing that was impressed in me is that the sinfulness of the entire human race. Why did I say so? Because even on Sophocles time, i.e., c. 496–406 BC, things like parricide and incest had existed. That’s for me.
I saw in the story, it reminds me of Adam and Eve’s disobedience, that in just the sin of a man the whole kingdom suffered in a plague. Put it this way. The two parallel situations has the same thing in common, they have conscience, of course we all do but what’s important here is this; we can’t say that they didn’t know that they did it! Technically, conscience’s origin is from Middle English (also in the sense [inner thoughts or knowledge] ): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to,’ from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know.’ With know or in complete use of the language, knowledgeable, they are knowledgeable when they do it. So what’s the point with all of this? Process this. What I learned is that in everything we do we always act out of our conscience, we are knowledgeable about it – virtually in everything that we do, and in every act executes a consequence in return. I am not only talking about on a person to person scenario but even what is acted by our society or government.
What is also pointed out in the story is that we must be aware, be really, really, really, re-a-lly aware of blindness. Ahem, it’s not the physical defect, thank you very much though that’s what Oedipus did on the last part – blinded himself, but on the blindness that we develop, yes develop, as authority, convenience, fame, power, wealth, abundance pass our way. Blinded Oedipus that even the fear of killing his father and mating
Please be reminded that I would not only base on the drama presented by the English 145 but also to the things I read.
Oedipus Rex is one, such tragic thought of Sophocles yet one that also deserves higher understanding. At first I didn’t really expect things to end like that.
One thing that was impressed in me is that the sinfulness of the entire human race. Why did I say so? Because even on Sophocles time, i.e., c. 496–406 BC, things like parricide and incest had existed. That’s for me.
I saw in the story, it reminds me of Adam and Eve’s disobedience, that in just the sin of a man the whole kingdom suffered in a plague. Put it this way. The two parallel situations has the same thing in common, they have conscience, of course we all do but what’s important here is this; we can’t say that they didn’t know that they did it! Technically, conscience’s origin is from Middle English (also in the sense [inner thoughts or knowledge] ): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to,’ from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know.’ With know or in complete use of the language, knowledgeable, they are knowledgeable when they do it. So what’s the point with all of this? Process this. What I learned is that in everything we do we always act out of our conscience, we are knowledgeable about it – virtually in everything that we do, and in every act executes a consequence in return. I am not only talking about on a person to person scenario but even what is acted by our society or government.
What is also pointed out in the story is that we must be aware, be really, really, really, re-a-lly aware of blindness. Ahem, it’s not the physical defect, thank you very much though that’s what Oedipus did on the last part – blinded himself, but on the blindness that we develop, yes develop, as authority, convenience, fame, power, wealth, abundance pass our way. Blinded Oedipus that even the fear of killing his father and mating