In Teaching the Language of Drama, we require to learn on Oedipus Rex text (play). I like play and to me Oedipus Rex is quite easy to understand although the language, some of it, is unfamiliar to me. After reading the text, there are certain things that I don’t actually understand what the writer is trying to say. Therefore, I use another alternative which is looking for the simpler version (edited into modern English language) and also its summary. These have given me a better understanding of what the text is all about. In the story, King Oedipus had been told when he was a young boy that he would marry his own mother and the one who kill his own father. Due to that prophecy, he decided to run away but on his journey, he ran across a group of man. They insulted him and make him angry so he fought them and killed them without knowing the fact that the old man that he killed is his father. The royal family that he brought up with is not the real parents.
After that he continues his journey and finally arrives in Thebes. The people in Thebes had just lost their King (king Laios; the person that he had killed), so he becomes the King and he is married to Jocaste (his biological mother; the queen of Thebes). After quite sometimes, there’s plague affecting their country so he tries to solve the problem with many ways but it is said that they should be looking for the previous king murderer. Thus, the plague will be gone. Oedipus seeks for Teiresias’s help to unfold the story behind the king’s murder. However he refused to listen to the truth that is being told by Teiresias.
After that he is being told that there is a servant that knows the story of previous king. After being told about the real story then only he realizes that his fate cannot be undone no matter what he did. All the prophecy upon him turns into reality.
After knowing the content of the story I remember there is one similar situation in our country but this one in the only he knows about the real story behind his journey of life. This girl met her boy in university. They then got married and blessed with two children. When the girl is 3 months pregnant to her third child, the father in which had left her and her mother when she was 13 years old came to visits her. This visits had somehow unfold a very sad and tragic story. Both the husband and wife is actually sibling. Later, they were being asked to separate. This is not supposed to happen because when you are married to someone, it means that you had gave a hundred and ten person dedications to your partner and this tragic tragedy will tortured their life.
I really pity for Oedipus and the married couple.
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