Sunday, January 15, 2006
1/15/2006 12:35:00 AM - Oedipus...
I had just finished reading my first Greek play, Oedipus the King. It is the prequel to the play Antigone but it was written after it. Kind of similar to Star Wars, don’t you think so? Was George Lucas a fan of Sophocles? Anyway, as I finished the play, I couldn’t help but notice that Sophocles seems to focus on the element of curse in this play. Even a king like Oedipus eventually bows down to his very own curse, which I think is quite sad because I strongly believe that one can still change the course of life although one might have been cursed. Of course, we cannot escape death. In the play, we read how Oedipus curses the murderer before discovering that he was the one. I thought that he would ignore the curse and get on with his life, but instead he did the unthinkable. He decided that he will accept the punishment he had said earlier. He blinded himself. Heartbreaking. To me, he could have just walk away from it but it didn’t happen. If the story of Oedipus really did happen, I would admire Oedipus for his courage and honesty but at the same time, I would say that he is rather foolish to end the good things that he had just because of a curse.
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