Oedipus The King And Of Cannibals By Michel De Montaigne
Literature is one of the main ways people express themselves through. The stories being written serve to make the reader think and finish the book with having more knowledge than they did going in. Literature is full of messages that help the reader realize there’s more to this story and what the writer is trying to tell them. That the words written down are more than just what they say, they were deliberately put there by the writer trying to get the reader to understand. Literature use of themes helps people connect more to humanity and themselves. One of the many works of literature that make people think about equality and how it is at the moment is “Of Cannibals” by Michel de Montaigne. The base of the work is discrimination against other
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In “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, it has the reader experience a great amount of empathy for Oedipus. Empathy is important as it helps people understand someone else’s pain or problems. It helps people be able to relate to one another and that happens in “Oedipus the King”. As the reader gets farther into the story and the truth about Oedipus comes out, they are able to empathize with him. In this line, it’s easy to empathize with Oedipus, “O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me 1365 look upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed and accursed in my living with them I lived with, cursed in my killing”. Oedipus just realized that the prophecy of him killing his father and having an incestuous relationship with his mother has come true. The empathy the reader feels is strong because they know they would be devastated just like Oedipus if they were in his shoes. It helps as this happening was all out of Oedipus hands. He did not want this to happen and didn’t act intentionally as to help the prophecy come true. “Oedipus the King” brings a staggering amount of empathy to the surface which is good because it helps the reader to be able to relate to
In “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, it has the reader experience a great amount of empathy for Oedipus. Empathy is important as it helps people understand someone else’s pain or problems. It helps people be able to relate to one another and that happens in “Oedipus the King”. As the reader gets farther into the story and the truth about Oedipus comes out, they are able to empathize with him. In this line, it’s easy to empathize with Oedipus, “O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me 1365 look upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed and accursed in my living with them I lived with, cursed in my killing”. Oedipus just realized that the prophecy of him killing his father and having an incestuous relationship with his mother has come true. The empathy the reader feels is strong because they know they would be devastated just like Oedipus if they were in his shoes. It helps as this happening was all out of Oedipus hands. He did not want this to happen and didn’t act intentionally as to help the prophecy come true. “Oedipus the King” brings a staggering amount of empathy to the surface which is good because it helps the reader to be able to relate to