Overall, I didn’t really enjoy reading Oedipus the King, I’m not a fan of plays in general and this one was especially boring in my opinion. The old English is which it was written made the story feel like a drag and it wasn’t an attention grabber for me. I was fully able to read it but I don’t think I would read it again at least not by choice, and I most definitely would never choose to act out this play.
Daily Archives: March 27, 2024
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If I hadn’t read the article before reading the story I think that would have misunderstood what significance has0 the gesture of the grandmother had at the end of the story. When she expressed to the Misfit that he was one of her children, I believe that it was her way to after all, seeing someone without a superficial eye. Through the whole story the Grandmother made up her perceptions about others based on what they have with expressions like “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!” I think that if I hadn’t read the article I would have missed a lot of the grandmother’s behavioral components. At the beginning of the story I found her very selfish but at the end as she found herself facing death she finally did something that for the first time in the story she behaved like a caring grandmother.
