What timeless human experiences or behaviors do you find in your reading of Oedipus the King?
The story “Oedipus the King”, is relevant to this world crisis and in the past time as its been happening through the centuries where the kings are getting executed by their own family members to get into power. Just like that what happens in this plot when he would murder his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus is ignorant of the deep dishonor he has done. Had Oedipus taken a moment to consider that there was any possibility that the man he was arguing with was his father, maybe he wouldn’t have killed him. Immediately following the murder, Oedipus could have felt shame for killing someone, but he could not have felt shame for killing his own father, however, was viewed as an act of significant dishonor and, therefore, if Oedipus had known immediately after the fact that he had killed Laius, he would have taken on the burden of shame. Speaking to the Chorus, Oedipus asserts, “I account myself a child of Fortune, beneficent Fortune, and I shall not be dishonored.” Oedipus, believing that he has gone his whole life thus far outsmarting the gods, regards himself as being a man of great fortune and honor. Because Oedipus thinks he has not dishonored his family by killing his father and wedding his mother.
