Jocasta

Lee Clarke’s statement from his book outlines the following statement: “Disasters aren’t special. They are normal as love, joy, triumph, and misery.” (6) From this statement, I disagree with two things, disasters are normal, and they aren’t special. Catastrophes are impractical events that occur when we least expect them. I disagree with Lee Clarke 's statement because catastrophes are life changing events that affect everyone in certain ways, therefore, they should not be looked at as something…

The story of Oedipus the king is gloomy, yet captivating. Going from a child bond around the feet and abandon by the mountainside, to marrying his mother, his story is intriguing. In search of the truth about the prophecy and putting an end to a plague Oedipus search for king Laius’s killer. Leaving him to die at mountainside with his foot slice and tie as an infant for the reason of killing the prophecy said about him when he was born, his mother and father abandon him. A shepherd who finds…

the riddle of the sphinx and utilizing logical deduction in finding the murderer. However, his heroic virtues are extreme when he gouges his eyes out and banishes himself from Thebes: to suffer alone, give peace to Thebes, and a proper burial for Jocasta. Moreover, Sophocles and his story of Oedipus Rex is a blueprint for detective story according to the modern day…

And people who use fate as an excuse, that way they do not have obstacles in their way. Just like in the play, Jocasta and Laius had a prophecy that told them that their son (Oedipus) will kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother (Jocasta),basically in other words “ [a]n oracle Once came to Laius (I will not say 'Twas from the Delphic god himself, but from His ministers) declaring he was doomed To perish by the hand of…

his father and marry his mother, he ended up fulfilling this prophecy unknowingly. Throughout the play Oedipus tries to find his true identity no matter the consequences, in the end he realizes that he has actually fulfilled his fate by marrying Jocasta, his mother, and killing Laius, his father. This fulfillment of fate and realization of circumstances led Oedipus to fulfill the concluding stage of a tragic hero's life by gorging out his eyes and fleeing from the kingdom of…

he placed himself on start to disintegrate as he found out all of the dark secrets that surround him; throwing him off the pedestal and onto the hard ground (representing the truth). In his heart, he has himself to represent his pride. He also has Jocasta and his family (including Thebes) representing his love…

find his kid, Sohrab, and raise him as his own. Amir found where Sohrab was living and was flooded with emotions when he saw that he was being kept as a servant to Assef who has raped Hassan in their childhood. Similarly, Oedipus’ mother and wife, Jocasta, was flooded with emotions when she found out who Oedipus really was. He had killed his father, King Laius, and married his mother, Queen…

father and marry his mother. The curse was placed on King Laius who had done an unforgivable sin to the son of King Pelops who reigned over Pisa. An oracle warns King Laius of Thebes that his wife, Jocasta, will bear a son who will one day kill him and bear children with his own biological mother. As Jocasta gives birth to the boy, Laius acts to defeat the oracle's prophecy. Laius drives a spike through the child's feet, hence the name Oedipus (means swollen foot), and then orders a shepherd to…

“The Kite Runner” and “Oedipus Rex” are very different forms of fictional writing they are very similar in their own ways. Both works have many moments of irony and the main characters turn out to be lied to by their own parents or close family. The fact that the main characters are lied to and can be considered “betrayed” by their own parents or close family is what gives these two works of writing that irony. Both pieces of writing are similar in a way because although the pieces are writing…

his father and marry his mother, and have kids with her. To run away from this prediction, Oedipus “literally” runs away from Corinth, so that the prediction does not come true. But the irony is that, all of this led him to marry his “real mother” Jocasta, and have babies with her and led him to murder his father Laius unknowingly. The further he tried to run from the prediction, the closer her got to it. The fact that Oedipus left Corinth, and the fact that he wanted the murderer of Laius to be…