Oedipus the King goes through a plethora of universal human experiences. One of the most common is the tragedy that occurs amongst family members as a result of secrets. Another timeless experience is the copulation of mother and son, for whom their names, Jocasta and Oedipus, are still remembered as the Jocasta and Oedipus complexes. The Jocasta experience is when a mother has an incestuous sexual desire for her son, whereas the Oedipus complex is when the boy has an unconscious sexual yearning for the mother. Another everlasting experience is people’s blatant dread and paranoia, and the lengths to which they will go to avoid feeling them, as in Laius’ attempt to murder Oedipus. As fate would have it, Oedipus eventually fulfilled the prophecy. Oedipus would almost certainly have fulfilled his destiny regardless of whether Laius did what he did or did not hear the prophesy due to fate, which is a timeless human experience in and of itself. Even if you attempt to control the ending, as was the case with Oedipus and murdering his father, as well as all that led up to it, including Jocasta’s death and Oedipus blinding himself and leaving himself to wander.
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Hi Marisa, I agree with you also Aristotle claimed that the central aim of tragedy is not to depict human personalities but to represent human action. He highlights the importance of action because action initiates events, which in turn makes it the single most important driver of the plot. He argues that even though character and thought drive action, they aren’t as important as the action itself. The plot is the arrangement of incidents, and only in the plot can we find contentment, regardless of motivation or underlying cause.
Hi Marisa, I agree with you, when comes to prophesy it is sometimes hard to take, just like Oedipus trying to escape it but also results in the prophecy on Oedipus. If Oedipus would be been a different story because prophecy sometimes can change from outside. But after all, Oedipus let the prophecy happing when he left Corinth, like the first setp towards dream or hell.