Reaction to Oedipus the King

             Oedipus the King is one of my favorite plays that I have ever come in contact with. In High School, we would read two or three plays a year, including this one in my senior year, and there was also a school play. The reasons I like it are simple. The play is a very simple play to read. Most of the time, plays are easier when you have several people doing the voices of each character. But with Oedipus it seems to flow very easy and smooth. Another reason I like the play is that even though you could have no background of the story of Oedipus, you are able to pick up on the history very easy. Sophocles did a very well job on telling the background subtly, while keeping the reader interested. He also did a very good job in sticking to the Greek unities, Time, Place, and Action. I like how the play takes place all in one day, but you learn about everything that has happened in many years in that one day. I also like how the action doesn't change at all. Throughout the entire play Oedipus is trying to end the plague that has cursed the city of Thebes.
             A big reason I like this play is that the story itself is very interesting. When I read it in High School, I found it a little boring. But in High School I found everything I read boring. Now that I am in college I enjoy reading a lot more than I did in High School. I like to read a lot now. I am happy that I got another chance to read Oedipus Rex. In High School when we found out that he kills his father and marries his mother, we all make a disgusted face and make some kind of remark. Now that I read it in college I understand that it was not his fault, but it was his fate to do all that. In other Greek tragedies that I have read there is always the element of Dramatic Irony. In Oedipus, it occurs when two separate people try to change fate. Jocasta and Laius try to change their fate by attempting to rid themselves of Oedipus. Oedipus does the same when he leaves Corinth believing th...

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