{"id":9092,"date":"2022-10-08T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T19:59:24","slug":"alex-barrios-discussion-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/10\/08\/alex-barrios-discussion-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Barrios Discussion 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the defining human conditions that is prevalent throughout the play is the attempt to escape one\u2019s fate and the burden of truth. I understand that in his position the idea that he would\u00a0murder his own father and to then\u00a0sleep with his mother deeply disturbed him so much that he perhaps thought he could do something to escape that\u00a0destiny by using his free will. However, not realizing that his actions end up\u00a0fulfilling the very prophecy he\u2019s terrified of. Along with the idea of escaping fate and free will, another theme I’ve picked up is sight and blindness. The contrast between a blind prophet who can \u201csee\u201d the world for what it really is and Oedipus who is able to see with his own eyes yet to chooses not to see things for what they are. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Sometimes we choose to see what we want to see because it\u2019s easier to live in ignorance than to be burdened with the weight of the truth.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the defining human conditions that is prevalent throughout the play is the attempt to escape one\u2019s fate and the burden of truth. I understand that in his position the idea that he would\u00a0murder his own father and to then\u00a0sleep with his mother deeply disturbed him so much that he perhaps thought he could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-7-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9093,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}