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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1395 words (5.58 pages) in the essay titled Buena vista de Oedipus Buena Vista de “Oedipus The King”Do you have a great understanding of “Oedipus the King”? The understanding provoked by reading this story is not accidental but intentional. Sophocles wants the reader to walk away with condemnation and regret. The reader can not help but to walk away from the book with a better understanding of fate. The knowledge gained is going to be different for each reader. To understand the story, an eye examination must take place. A diagnosis of each character’s function and true self must be performed. Unless, the reader puts on his or her lenses of interpretation they will suffer from First, the main character, Oedipus according to the story is the greatest of men and the solver of riddles. Well, Oedipus can only solve the riddle of his own origins by revealing a truth too awful to bear. Knowledge is power but the insight gained from the knowledge is painful. Oedipus is the perfect example of this philosophy. Oedipus’ strive to see everything blinded him but even in his blindness he still searched for answers. Christopher Nassaar writes, “Oedipus is thus the patron saint of philosophers, scientists, poets and artists - of all truth-seekers. Like Mulder and Scully in the X Files, Oedipus knows ‘the truth is out there’, but unlike them, he doesn t expect to have his eyesight restored for next week s episode”(187)! Nassaar also writes, “... |
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Keywords: oedipus the king, teiresias, mulder and scully, riddles, provoked, sophocles, buena vista, walk away, fate, truth seekers, patron saint, true self, choices made, x files, knowledge is power, eye examination, creon, eyesight