Destiny’s Child
From day-to-day, week-to-week, and month-to-month, one could often hope that “destiny be with [them] always” (48). Oedipus, a bizarre yet strangely appealing story about a man who married his mother and killed his father, revolves around the entire concept of fate. Personally, I thought it was one of the most significant themes of the play, and it was the single thing that led me to create my chronicle. I chose to write about Jocasta’s last moments; because I wanted to explore the effects that fate can potentially leave on us. Fate is such a delicate thing that it could lead us to stray from it and deal with it in different ways. Considering the impact fate has on our lives, it may even spark a question of who really …show more content…
In Broken Glass, Jocasta is troubled by the fact that who she thought she married was actually the son she abandoned a few decades ago. She destroyed her room and many of the prized possessions in it. The crystalline vase that one of her aunts gave her, as a symbol of a strong union between her and Oedipus, was completely destroyed after she threw it on the ground. She only destroyed the vase because she felt that it should reflect her life, broken and shattered. She also wrecked a painting of her and Oedipus by stabbing “his face, creating a tear from his eye down to his chin.” And she “went on to pierce his entire body, leaving shreds of paper on the ground.” Laius was her one true love, and she hated that she ended up remarrying her son. She hates that her life came out like this and finds no purpose to continue living. This ultimately leads her to hang herself with the rope from her window curtains. Oedipus took a similar approach before and after he found out the truth of his life and that he already fulfilled his prophecy. When he first hears of the prophecy, he runs far away from Corinth. At that time, he was the prince of Corinth and his parents, Merope and Polybus, were ruling as king and …show more content…
The prophecy did say that he would kill his father and marry his mother, but Oedipus was oblivious to the fact that Merope and Polybus were not his real parents. He ended up traveling in the direction of Thebes and killing his father on his way there. The first part of the prophecy was already fulfilled and Oedipus had no idea. He entered Thebes and became king of the land, after he solved a riddle from a sphinx. The second part of the prophecy was fulfilled after he married his mother, Jocasta, and had children with her. He lived without knowing this for a good
From day-to-day, week-to-week, and month-to-month, one could often hope that “destiny be with [them] always” (48). Oedipus, a bizarre yet strangely appealing story about a man who married his mother and killed his father, revolves around the entire concept of fate. Personally, I thought it was one of the most significant themes of the play, and it was the single thing that led me to create my chronicle. I chose to write about Jocasta’s last moments; because I wanted to explore the effects that fate can potentially leave on us. Fate is such a delicate thing that it could lead us to stray from it and deal with it in different ways. Considering the impact fate has on our lives, it may even spark a question of who really …show more content…
In Broken Glass, Jocasta is troubled by the fact that who she thought she married was actually the son she abandoned a few decades ago. She destroyed her room and many of the prized possessions in it. The crystalline vase that one of her aunts gave her, as a symbol of a strong union between her and Oedipus, was completely destroyed after she threw it on the ground. She only destroyed the vase because she felt that it should reflect her life, broken and shattered. She also wrecked a painting of her and Oedipus by stabbing “his face, creating a tear from his eye down to his chin.” And she “went on to pierce his entire body, leaving shreds of paper on the ground.” Laius was her one true love, and she hated that she ended up remarrying her son. She hates that her life came out like this and finds no purpose to continue living. This ultimately leads her to hang herself with the rope from her window curtains. Oedipus took a similar approach before and after he found out the truth of his life and that he already fulfilled his prophecy. When he first hears of the prophecy, he runs far away from Corinth. At that time, he was the prince of Corinth and his parents, Merope and Polybus, were ruling as king and …show more content…
The prophecy did say that he would kill his father and marry his mother, but Oedipus was oblivious to the fact that Merope and Polybus were not his real parents. He ended up traveling in the direction of Thebes and killing his father on his way there. The first part of the prophecy was already fulfilled and Oedipus had no idea. He entered Thebes and became king of the land, after he solved a riddle from a sphinx. The second part of the prophecy was fulfilled after he married his mother, Jocasta, and had children with her. He lived without knowing this for a good