Oedipus the King Blog

Oedipus the king is a drama which for me is so too coincidental to happen that it could for me is too farfetched to happen in real life. There were so many unrealistic happening which made the drama for me very weird but surprisingly interesting for me. Even at its most outrageous setting and plot, the reader is still very interesting because as the fact that it is very odd and weird thing to happen makes it much more interesting to read at. When have you seen such plot like the Oedipus the king drama, where the story was based upon on a prophecy which they tried to avoid but because they tried to avoid it and react to that prophecy the prophecy actually happened. Which made me think of what might have happened if the parents of Oedipus did not give him to the herdsman for him to hang on a tree with Oedipus’s feet tied up. Would the prophecy still come true ? And the story is full of irony like where Oedipus was cursing the murder or where he was trying to search for the murderer. If the herdsman have just told that Oedipus that Polybus wasn’t his real father the tragedy might not even happen. Although the point of this drama is to show a tragedy. And the fact that if Oedipus had just listened to Jacosta, he wouldn’t have to be exiled and know the truth. It was better of for theme in their situation to live in a lie that lives in the bitter truth. For the drama I liked how the drama is full of flashbacks and full of realizations. This made the story like a roller coaster ride where there are always many ups and many downs. Though I didn’t like the fact that they keep asking the oracle which made the whole life of theirs based upon on predictions and by avoiding it only makes it truer. Imagining a life like that makes me sick and everyone keeps asking what the oracle thinks and so on. They are too dependent on the oracle and have too much faith on their gods. Many of us are somehow similar to this kind of life where everyone depends on others saying and never actually think for themselves. Though asking help and advice is not bad, too much dependency on these things can alter our lives to which we expect them to be but never really actually happened. Like for example, sayings like if we work hard and do good deeds will make our lives better can actually have a bad effect as this can make our hopes up really high but if they never really make our lives good can make our hopes really down. As an effect this can change the perspective of life from good to bad.