Uncontrolled Emotions In Trifles And Oedipus The King

Uncontrolled Emotions and Their Consequences

The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Oedipus the King by Sophocles illustrate how uncontrolled emotions, such as fear, anger, embarrassment and can lead to bad consequences, including impulsive actions, destroying lives, and ultimately death. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their lives. Not only can the lack of control of these emotions cause physical pain, but it can also cause emotional distress and also can cause distrust within relationships ultimately causing the relationships to be ruined. The reader is given good examples of cause and effect of how emotions can ruin a person’s life based off of how they are controlled. As humans we are all given emotions, and sometimes we are given challenges to test our emotional control, however it is only when we learn how to control them that we actually learn how to find happiness within ourselves.
The first type of uncontrolled emotion that can lead to bad consequences is fear. In Trifles, the reader understands that Mrs. Wright has significantly changed as a
As children we learn what it is to be embarrassed, we also learn that our reaction to the embarrassment is what either makes the situation better, or makes it worse. In Oedipus the King, the play reveals that Oedipus runs away from his city of birth because he is embarrassed of a prophecy that he was going to kill his father and have a relationship with his mother. The unfortunate part about him running away from the embarrassment is that unfortunately the prophecy happens anyway. Initially Oedipus doesn’t know this to be a true fact, however, upon his investigations and mockery of many townspeople, the conclusion was made that in fact he was the murderer. Upon this conclusion he