Thursday, August 6, 2009

Oedipus Rex (or the king)

Oh my god this is more screwed up then Antigone, but not by way too much. Oedipus Rex was about Antigone's father's life beyond a point,the story starts out with him meeting a priest and other people with the priest and he seems all nice but when his wife's brother who you find out later is his uncle gets back from Delphi after seeing the Oracle of Apollo he was told by Apollo to find the murderer of ex-King Laius. Now Apollo knew who it was and said that he must be punished, so he places a curse on who killed him and called the Blind Prophet Tiresias to tell them who it was since he sees with the eyes of Apollo. He refuses to tell him and says he must figure it out himself, so he calls a shepherd who served Laius.So I hate top change the subject but when he was waiting a messenger from Corinth came to tell Oedipus that his believed father died from being sick but when he was saying how he couldn't go anywhere near parents cause Apollo he would kill both of his parents so the messenger told him how he found him on a mountain, Mount Cithaeron with his ankles pinned together. When the shepherd got there he found that his real mother asked the shepherd to kill him so Apollo's prophecy wouldn't come true but he pitied him and gave him to the messenger which he then gave to King Polybus and Queen Merope who were overjoyed because they could not have one of there own. So when the Shepherd got there he verified it after torture threats, Oedipus realized Apollo was right he killed his father King Laius and he remembered the rest that he would kill his mother too which is Guess who... you got it was his wife who hung herself out of the agony he would go through after finding out he married his mother, and bore children with her, so in a way he did kill her. But after he saw this sight he gouged out his eyes, and when Creon his uncle came in to pity him and brought his daughters Antigone and Ismene for them to say good bye before he asked Creon to take him to the hole his parents wanted him to die in as a child, to die. and that was that play, either today or tomorrow I'll put up a blog post for Oedipus at Colonus.

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