What Comes for You, Will Find You
“Pride comes before a fall. It happens this way in relationships, as well as with the rest of life.” This quote from an unknown source is so true. In the three stories Sophocles’ Greek drama Oedipus and famed Greek storyteller Aesop’s fables “ The Goat and the Goatherd” and “ The Little Boy and Fortune” they all deal with pride and hiding things from everyone. You can have too much pride and if you try and hide something it will always come out in the end.
Oedipus solved a riddle that the Sphinx had given him the Sphinx when he answered it correctly she went and killed herself. When Oedipus was born he had a fate that he shall kill his father and marry his mother. So, Oedipus biological parents gave him to the shepherd to hang him by his legs off a mountain and let him die. The shepherd did not follow the King and Queens directions the shepherd gave him to another King and Queen that could not bear children. Oedipus’s biological parents didn’t want him due to the fact that his fate was to kill his father and he would then marry his mother they did not want to have to deal with all that so they just wanted him to be dead so they could live a normal life. Oedipus was at a party and a drunk man came up to him and told him that he was …show more content…
This connects to Oedipus by how Oedipus trying to hide that he killed three men and that one was his father. Oedipus did not tell anyone what he had done so he tried to hide it. Oedipus and the Goatherd have a lot in common they both try and hide things that will eventually come out in the end. Oedipus knows he had killed three men but, he decides to tell no one but, that is actually hurting himself and the people of Thebes. It is best if you just tell what happened instead of trying to hide it from
“Pride comes before a fall. It happens this way in relationships, as well as with the rest of life.” This quote from an unknown source is so true. In the three stories Sophocles’ Greek drama Oedipus and famed Greek storyteller Aesop’s fables “ The Goat and the Goatherd” and “ The Little Boy and Fortune” they all deal with pride and hiding things from everyone. You can have too much pride and if you try and hide something it will always come out in the end.
Oedipus solved a riddle that the Sphinx had given him the Sphinx when he answered it correctly she went and killed herself. When Oedipus was born he had a fate that he shall kill his father and marry his mother. So, Oedipus biological parents gave him to the shepherd to hang him by his legs off a mountain and let him die. The shepherd did not follow the King and Queens directions the shepherd gave him to another King and Queen that could not bear children. Oedipus’s biological parents didn’t want him due to the fact that his fate was to kill his father and he would then marry his mother they did not want to have to deal with all that so they just wanted him to be dead so they could live a normal life. Oedipus was at a party and a drunk man came up to him and told him that he was …show more content…
This connects to Oedipus by how Oedipus trying to hide that he killed three men and that one was his father. Oedipus did not tell anyone what he had done so he tried to hide it. Oedipus and the Goatherd have a lot in common they both try and hide things that will eventually come out in the end. Oedipus knows he had killed three men but, he decides to tell no one but, that is actually hurting himself and the people of Thebes. It is best if you just tell what happened instead of trying to hide it from