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Oedipus Rex
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is a play about the tragedy that follows after an oracle comes to King Laius of Thebes and tells him that the son he has by Jocasta will kill his father and marry his mother. Everything that happens from then on is about a variety of characters trying to overcome fate with their own Free Will. Nee ....
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....old man, when he saw it,
watching as I was passing, from the car
With the goad’s fork struck me upon the head.
He paid, though! duly I say not; but in brief,
Smitten by the staff in this right hand of mine,
Out in the middle of this carriage straight
He rolls down headlong; and I slay them all.”
Oedipus had done what had been fated: he had slayed his father, King Laius. He does not know whom he had killed, nor did he know that his actions had been written in the fates by the gods. He conti.... |
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