Frankly speaking, I just finished reading the play “Sophocoles; Oedipus Rex” and something captured my mind about this King. When I went through this text I class, I found that Oedipus was the worst person in this world. However, after thoroughly reading this text on myself, something new came out from my heart towards him. Readers should not blame him for something that he never knew the truth. People started to have negative feelings towards him because he had killed his own father and married with his own mother. However, readers must take note that he never wished to do all of that. When he was at Corinth, he left his hometown and never return because he tried to get rid from the oracle – he will kill his father and marry his mother. This proved that he never willing to against the nature.
Besides that, I think Oedipus was an honest and responsible leader. Readers might think he is a bad person when he scolded Teiresias for not telling him the truth about Laius’s murderer. But for me, he done this because he felt the responsibility to find Laius’s murderer and at the same time solved the plague. Moreover, at the end of this story, when he truth was revealed, Oedipus blinded himself as a punishment for him. Besides that, he also beg Creon to let him leave the city because banishment was the punishment he declared for Laius’s killer.
Thus, from my point of view, readers cannot blame Oedipus totally because his situation is what we called as ‘Moira’. As human, we cannot change our fate; God has planned our destiny.
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When I first read this posting, it was clear to me that we have the same idea of Oedipus. I totally agree with Effah posting. Why do I agree that the sequence of event in this play is not entirely his fault? For the first reason, Oedipus had actually tried to avoid his misfortune when he run away from Corinth to avoid the prophecy of him to kill his own father. Well, he did not know at that time that he was adopted. When he had when to Thebes to avoid his fate, which was the beginning of his misfortune. However, he did manage to become a King and also have a family on his own, even though he had married his own mother. For one scene in the play, I also agree with Effah that when he was angry at Tiresias, it was not his fault also. He was just doing his duty, to find out the truth, even though the truth will haunt him for the rest of his life. Overall, I strongly agree with Effah posting. Oedipus should not be blame. It was fated for him to kill his father and married his own mother.
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