Different Point of Views in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy
Sophocles has written several engaging plays and is considered one of the greatest Greek tragedians. His most important plays include ‘Oedipus the King’, ‘Oedipus at Colonus’, and ‘Antigone’. These plays follow the tragic tale of a great king named Oedipus and the tragic incidents that arise his children. Many aspects of academic work are related to the Oedipus trilogy in an interesting way. These articles include authors like Jeffery L. Buller, John R. Holmes, John Savioe and many more. These resources indicate the literary criticisms related to Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy. After interpretation of the three articles, it is considered that “Oedipus Tyrannus” by Jeffrey L. Buller has the …show more content…
This article mainly states that the reason for the curse and plague of the city is from the Greek culture itself because the speculation that the culture is highly sexual and known for unlawful relationships, which relates to Oedipus killing his father and marrying his own mother. It states that Apollo did not just curse Oedipus’ family, but also cursed everyone in the city because of its illegitimate conduct. This concludes that the curse was brought to everyone in the city, in favour of the …show more content…
Buller, the author of the article “Oedipus Tyrannus” indicates that despite Oedipus’ great confidence and performance as a king, he is shown throughout the play to be wrong about everything. His fate illustrates the dangers of overconfidence; in which no matter how certain one may be about things, there is always the possibility that one may be wrong. Oedipus goes from being a powerful and confident king at the beginning to being a blind beggar at the end. Oedipus states unambiguously that it was due to anger that he killed the man who had blocked his way at the crossroads, in which this man turns out to be his own father, Laius. Yet it is also stated several times that Oedipus was destined to kill Laius and to marry his mother, Jocasta. This resulted in two ambiguous cases; both including Oedipus and his fate have determined his suffering [Buller].
One of these three articles tends to be less interesting than all the others. One article that is the less interesting is the article written by John R. Holmes called “Oedipus at Colonus”. This article seems to be subordinate because it mostly talks about the significance of Colonus which does not have too much significance to be used for academic purposes. Preferably, articles should approach more than one topic within a subject, but this article lacks this strategy. Articles are entitled to relate deep into topics as well as have an aspect to refer to other
Sophocles has written several engaging plays and is considered one of the greatest Greek tragedians. His most important plays include ‘Oedipus the King’, ‘Oedipus at Colonus’, and ‘Antigone’. These plays follow the tragic tale of a great king named Oedipus and the tragic incidents that arise his children. Many aspects of academic work are related to the Oedipus trilogy in an interesting way. These articles include authors like Jeffery L. Buller, John R. Holmes, John Savioe and many more. These resources indicate the literary criticisms related to Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy. After interpretation of the three articles, it is considered that “Oedipus Tyrannus” by Jeffrey L. Buller has the …show more content…
This article mainly states that the reason for the curse and plague of the city is from the Greek culture itself because the speculation that the culture is highly sexual and known for unlawful relationships, which relates to Oedipus killing his father and marrying his own mother. It states that Apollo did not just curse Oedipus’ family, but also cursed everyone in the city because of its illegitimate conduct. This concludes that the curse was brought to everyone in the city, in favour of the …show more content…
Buller, the author of the article “Oedipus Tyrannus” indicates that despite Oedipus’ great confidence and performance as a king, he is shown throughout the play to be wrong about everything. His fate illustrates the dangers of overconfidence; in which no matter how certain one may be about things, there is always the possibility that one may be wrong. Oedipus goes from being a powerful and confident king at the beginning to being a blind beggar at the end. Oedipus states unambiguously that it was due to anger that he killed the man who had blocked his way at the crossroads, in which this man turns out to be his own father, Laius. Yet it is also stated several times that Oedipus was destined to kill Laius and to marry his mother, Jocasta. This resulted in two ambiguous cases; both including Oedipus and his fate have determined his suffering [Buller].
One of these three articles tends to be less interesting than all the others. One article that is the less interesting is the article written by John R. Holmes called “Oedipus at Colonus”. This article seems to be subordinate because it mostly talks about the significance of Colonus which does not have too much significance to be used for academic purposes. Preferably, articles should approach more than one topic within a subject, but this article lacks this strategy. Articles are entitled to relate deep into topics as well as have an aspect to refer to other