Oedipus, future in the oracle and terror Prophecy
But this story does not end here as soon as it begins, since Oedipus will see his future in the oracle and he tells him the same prophecy (you will kill your father, and you will marry your mother) this terrified tries to change his destiny fleeing from Corinth and his adoptive parents, and on the way for randoms of fate he meets King Layo and his servants in a carriage, Oedipus and Layo have an argument and ends up killing everyone, here begins the prophecy to come true, then the first being fulfilled then the first part of her.
After this event Oedipus meets the sphinx that the Thebes was tormenting, this tells Oedipus that if he wants to leave alive he will have to answer his riddle (what creature is the one who walks to painting legs in the morning, two legs halfway day and three in the afternoon?) Oedipus responds, the human being and the sphing for the penalty of having lost suicide, this caused the people of Thebes to see Oedipus as a hero and made him king, and this is when he finishes completing his prophecy, since Oedipus marries Yocasta his biological mother.
With the death of Yocasta and the exile of Oedipus ends the tragic story of the tyrant of Thebes, in this work the attachment to his religious beliefs plays a role that stands out among others, since it is those beliefs that made Layo try to kill His son and are also the same beliefs that generated the flight of Oedipus of Corinth.
Developing
It can be observed in the work that all this tragedy begins with the proximity that Layo had to the oracle and thanks to his great convictions he tried to kill his own son, a tragic final for poor Oedipus, this type of convictions can be compared with Those that a very believer can feel and this can be seen very easy in our day to day, since many times thanks to your religion or your beliefs you can drastically change your future (or failing your destiny as can be seen in Oedipus king).
Oedipus King in a tragedy which is based on the destiny and power of the gods, in which the intervention of the word of the gods in the prophecy of Oedipus can be repeated, this generates that Oedipus’ father Be influenced by your beliefs, from the previous argument a question is generated, to what extent your religious beliefs can affect your knowledge and therefore also your actions?
For the resolution of this question, it will be asked personally, since being a knowledge question does not have a single answer, however, try to be as humanly as possible: it is clear that many times your personal knowledge can generate that reactions of many forms (although to some extent that personal knowledge is what generates your personality and therefore your opinion matrix) but on the other hand your knowledge could be altered by a new knowledge that changes your perspective, which generates that your personal knowledge changes And therefore also your actions, this generates a paradigm change which can be both for good and for evil, an example of paradigm which can change your opinion matrix (under my perspective) can be a religious belief either the Catholic, that of ancient Greece, Muslim, Jewish or even Jehovah’s Witnesses, among many other religions, all these religions can change your perspective It depends on the closeness you have with her, but something that regardless of which religion can possess, these totally change your way of seeing things, since the end of religions is to find the absolute truth and in the great majority of They explain to their form everything that surrounds us and as it was created, therefore a person who is Catholic will not share his ideals with a person of a very different religion such as a Hinduist and clearly the actions he could take They would also be different.
However, there are also more extreme cases as can be seen in Islam, when it is a religion which seeks love in all aspects and people who try to understand it, but end with a totally wrong idea, which believe that behavior of individual fragmented generating such important conflicts, and creating large terrorist groups such as al Qaeda or jihadism.
On the other hand, Oedipus Rey is a very complete work full of literary figures and shapes which revolutionized literature and especially the theater of tragedy in its time, a characteristic that characterizes Oedipus Rey is its use of choirs which complete and They entertain the context, since these were generally elderly or people of the town who were responsible for giving prayers, asking thanks, offerings, starting and ending the chapters, mediators in the development of history, and finally, but not less important also worked as narrators.
On the other hand, the literary figures found in the work would be hyperbole, metaphor, irony and finally the simile. The work of Oedipus Rey was so important for the literature that theories and paradigms have even been created from the book as the Oedipus complex that was inspired by the incestuous relationship between Yocasta and Oedipus
conclusion
In conclusion Oedipus Rey is a written tragedy around 430 to.C. For the playwright Sophocles is which had a very complete and broad writing with a wide variety of literary resources such as hyperbole, metaphor, irony and simile. In addition to revolutionizing theater and literature with the use of choirs.
On the other hand it was concluded that religious beliefs can misrepresent a thought or idea that therefore also changes your actions. Reaching a point where great conflicts can be generated such as those that can be seen in the Middle East.
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