Most of us know our family and our family history, but how would that change if one didn’t know that? Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex because he thought that men were trying to place themselves above the gods, since the discovery of science. He wanted to remind the people that the gods were all powerful, and that man was not. In the play, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus doesn’t know himself, both literally and figuratively.
Oedipus doesn’t know himself; he has been living a lie all his life. When he was born, his mother sent him away to die because a prophecy said that he was going to marry his mother and murder his father. Instead of being left to die, he was given to another royal family. Oedipus believed that they were his parents. Teir tells Oedipus,
Oedipus doesn’t know himself; he has been living a lie all his life. When he was born, his mother sent him away to die because a prophecy said that he was going to marry his mother and murder his father. Instead of being left to die, he was given to another royal family. Oedipus believed that they were his parents. Teir tells Oedipus,