I commented on Ollie’s and Darby’s!
A Collection of Thoughts on Classic Literature by the students of the 2016-2017 UM Honors Program.
Monday, September 5, 2016
So many questions
Did Oedipus have any control over any of these events? Did
the prophecy over his life sit in the back of his mind and haunt him? Did
Jocasta ever think about the prophecy of her child that she abandoned, or did
she try to forget about it all? The fact that Oedipus unknowingly fulfilled the
prophecies of killing his father and marrying his mother proves that there must
have been some outside factor. Were the gods controlling what was happening,
influencing his decisions along the way while lived life oblivious of it all? Was it
simply just coincidence that he happens to murder the men on the carriage that
his father was on and then marry Jocasta? I have so many questions about how this unfortunate mess happened.
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