The timeless or human behaviors I found within the reading Oedipus is the uncontrollable and unknowing of your fate. You can believe yourself to be a strong and grand person. As Oedipus is this personality he doesn’t believe he’d live the life of a societal fear and how broken a man can become as he learns the truth of his life. Learning that his wife has been his mother all along, learning that he in fact had killed his father, In knowing this, Oedipus is faced with the reality that we are not in control of our lives and our destinies. We can be manipulated by bigger forces than we understand. As Oedipus believes he is doing the right thing when he was not at all regarding something he did not know and while his efforts were in good intentions of his people, he failed them, another mundane and human behavior we can relate to.
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I totally agree with your analysis. This is a very good analysis that shows that we cannot control our destiny, and it can also happen that forces beyond us take over and control our lives. Oedipus is the perfect example for this analysis because not knowing that his mother was actually his wife, he lived very peacefully but once reality was restored his decline then began