Oedipus the king has a wide range of emotions and human experiences and behaviors one that stood out to me was the citizens praying to Zeus to protect their king and to make anyone that would bring harm to him to be struck down. This is still somewhat common in terms of people believing and religion and praying to help a family member or someone they know to be protected during surgery or for them to be healthy religion and a higher power has been a thing for thousands of years in human history and will continue to be so. Another experience that I noticed is Oediupus’s curiosity and wanting to find the truth on who killed Jocasta only to find out that Jocasta hung herself after finding this out Oedipus becomes quite emotional and ends up doing what happens in the rest of the story this is also a timeless human experience because he acted out of emotion after losing someone they cared about which still happens today because humans are emotional and care about the ones they love deeply so when something happens especially the loss of someone humans do crazy things out of emotion and from the pain of the loss.
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Steven, I like your comments about how people tend to pray when tragedy strikes. Often people who are not even religious invoke a higher power when they are overwhelmed by life situations. It’s also an observable human behavior to react with extreme emotion in extreme circumstances. Thanks for jumping in early to get things started.
Hi Steven,
I really liked your answer to discussion 7 and also agree. I wrote about how religion has always been a timeless human behavior/experience because it’s always been a part of human lives for centuries. I find it interesting how many citizens liked their king so much that they prayed to Zeus to strike down anyone who wanted to cause harm to the king. That is one thing that stood out for me from the play, and I noticed you also wrote about it.