Oedipus The King: Use Of Sight, Light And Darkness
The most blatant use of sight, light, and darkness is the meeting of the oracle and Oedipus. While Oedipus could see the world, the oracle could see the truth, and the contrapositive is also true. When he gains sight of the truth, he takes his sight of the world. Without voiding my essay topic, Oedipus seemed like a nice enough guy until something happened that he did not like. An old man had a bit of road rage? The obvious response is to go on a murderous rampage. His character as a whole is a comparison of light and darkness. On the surface, he is a good person (light). He did go make his best attempt at not murdering his father, but stuff happens when you go on Grand Theft Auto-style rampages on a whim. One of his most loyal friends disagreed
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It is pretty straightforward. Oedipus had sex with his mother, and he murdered his father. Maybe Freud thought the play was interesting to the masses because the audience all held murderous thoughts about their father and sexual desires about their mother. I find it odd that this phrase was coined from a work about a man who does literally almost everything in his power to prevent relations with his mother and ending his father's life. My personal response to the theory that he may have been onto something, but he took it a bit far. He took it far enough that someone has already has written me off as a complete lunatic after reading that sentence. I find that I am quite at ease around women who have a personality similar to my mother, possibly because I share many qualities with her. The thought that I am more likely to "click" with people like myself is not too strange or perverse of a thought to me. I have two older sisters who have married men similar to the man that raised them. I am simply suggesting that there may be some connection between your attraction to the personalities of members of the opposite sex that resemble a parental figure of the opposite sex. I think the murdering of the father is nonsensical. I really do not know what else to say to that, unless there is some link to your mother recognizing your maturity earlier than your father. If this is creating
It is pretty straightforward. Oedipus had sex with his mother, and he murdered his father. Maybe Freud thought the play was interesting to the masses because the audience all held murderous thoughts about their father and sexual desires about their mother. I find it odd that this phrase was coined from a work about a man who does literally almost everything in his power to prevent relations with his mother and ending his father's life. My personal response to the theory that he may have been onto something, but he took it a bit far. He took it far enough that someone has already has written me off as a complete lunatic after reading that sentence. I find that I am quite at ease around women who have a personality similar to my mother, possibly because I share many qualities with her. The thought that I am more likely to "click" with people like myself is not too strange or perverse of a thought to me. I have two older sisters who have married men similar to the man that raised them. I am simply suggesting that there may be some connection between your attraction to the personalities of members of the opposite sex that resemble a parental figure of the opposite sex. I think the murdering of the father is nonsensical. I really do not know what else to say to that, unless there is some link to your mother recognizing your maturity earlier than your father. If this is creating