Just finished Oedipus tonight.
A lot of people say that fate is a major theme in this story. However, my professor said this isn't the case because the greeks didn't believe in fate. If that's true, then what would you consider the main, overarching theme of "Oedipus Rex" to be?
Just finished Oedipus tonight
Cooper Cook
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Ayden Adams
Look too deeply into yourself and eventually you aren't gonna like what you find.
Always thought it was fate cuz it fits the story perfectly.
Hudson Barnes
This is above average bait. I still won't help you do your homework though.
Jackson Smith
Oedipus Rex is a classic tragedy by the criteria defined by Aristotle. That is, the character traits that raise the hero to greatness are the same that doom him to disaster.
For a modern day equivalent, see Better Call Saul.
Levi Campbell
It is fate, your professor is retarded.
Brody Martinez
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Oedipus Rex is about a time travelling vixen who must engage in incestual relations in order to conceive the Kwizatz Haderach and save the iron chariot from the Philadelphia Parking Authority. The true meaning is lost on most readers.
Brandon Harris
His mom knew all along.
Freud got it wrong. Mother's want to fuck their sons
Kayden Peterson
The main theme of Oedipus Rex is that you should fuck your mom a lot and get her pregnant several times.
Luke Green
>However, my professor said this isn't the case because the greeks didn't believe in fate
the hell, fate plays a major role in the iliad of all things
Chase Jackson
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>Even the gods feared the Moirai or Fates, which according to Herodotus a god could not escape.[59] The Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted, that Zeus was also subject to their power, though no classic writing clarifies as to what exact extent the lives of immortals were affected by the whims of the Fates. It is to be expected that the relationship of Zeus and the Moirai was not immutable over the centuries. In either case in antiquity we can see a feeling towards a notion of an order to which even the gods have to conform. Simonides names this power Ananke (necessity) (the mother of the Moirai in Orphic cosmogony) and says that even the gods don't fight against it.[60] Aeschylus combines Fate and necessity in a scheme, and claims that even Zeus cannot alter which is ordained.[4]