Oedipus Rex Persuasive Essay

Even as a precocious ten-year-old reading Oedipus Rex over summer break, I was able to appreciate the succinctness of Oedipus’ answer to the riddle of the Sphinx. To paraphrase: ‘man is the only creature that ‘walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening.’ The most striking thing about this statement is the rather matter-of-fact acceptance that no human has been able to singularly bear the weight of their one’s own decline.

That being the case: I’m not unwilling to admit that I grew a bit cantankerous over the last decade. Why else would grinning and snickering ensue whenever I’ve taken the cotton out of my ears momentarily capitulated to the siren call of optimism. Childless, unmarried, renting my apt month-to-month without a lease; I’m the freest man I know (ignoring for a moment thousands owed in student loan debt). Right? …show more content…
First and most important, I can date all the divorced women I want. At this current juncture in American history, the government has yet to make the connection between on the one hand the virulent plague of cynicism crippling its citizens and on the other the ever-increasing population of divorced women in the thirty-four to forty year old demographic. That’s not to say divorced women are the causative vector of cynicism. However, I can’t disregard the fact that whenever I’ve had to wait three months for mediocre sex, my detractors have always been sober