I believe that a truly universal aspect of the characters in the ancient Greek tragedy, “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles is their relationship with the gods. Obviously, in our modern society most people are not as hung up on God’s wrath but, even with the spread of atheism, people still need an outer force to blame things on and hope for things from. Whether that’s a deity, energies, forces, fate, chance or destiny, the majority believes that there is something else in charge of reality as we know it. Most people are still dependent on something else. Which in a way, understandable because after a certain amount of experience, one must admit that the way life works, the people we meet and the things we live through cannot be all for nothing.
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