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Sophocles
2,325听books2,531听followersSophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek:
危慰蠁慰魏位萎蟼
; German:
Sophokles
, Russian:
小芯褎芯泻谢
, French:
Sophocle
) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though each was part of a different tetralogy (the other members of which are now lost). Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor (attributed to Sophocles by Aristotle; to Aeschylus by Themistius), thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights.
The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though each was part of a different tetralogy (the other members of which are now lost). Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor (attributed to Sophocles by Aristotle; to Aeschylus by Themistius), thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights.
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February 14, 2017
What can I say about 鈥� that has not already been said? Apart from the patricide and the infamous incest, this is an ancient tale of angst and overall calamity. But since I recently revisited it, this legendary tragedy hasn鈥檛 left my mind.
I felt after reading the play that there was not really anything that Oedipus could have done to get himself out of his destiny. In fact, it seems that the more he attempts to get out of it, the deeper he is immersed in its inevitability. It is simply that there was no way for him to avoid doing it all and facing his fate. After hearing of the prophecy he flees because he doesn't want it to come true, but there is a lot that he does not know and a lot that he is not being told. His parents, when told by the oracles decided to sacrifice him. But he was saved by the compassionate nature of humanity. Later on, his step parents also leave him in ignorance, and in hiding the truth they are also making the prophecy come true.
The theme as I see it, therefore, is of fate versus freewill. However, there really does not seem to be any freewill here. Every decision that Oedipus makes only brings the revelation closer to being fulfilled.
But to fully understand Sophocles work, you have to know that for the ancient Greeks the word "tragedy" didn't mean 鈥渁 lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster.鈥� For them the idea of such a play, that had a certain and defined theme and structure, is about a person that because of a single tragic flaw becomes the victim of the gods. The specific purpose was called "catharsis", the audience watching the play should gain an emotional release that made your own trivial issues fade into insignificance. According to Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics 鈥渢he complexity of the plot is established through reversal, recognition and suffering.鈥� The tragedy is created, in part, by the complexity of its plot which leads towards the catharsis. The Chorus is crucial; its speeches are revealing. It is the cautious voice of collective wisdom. And from the very beginning of the play, the Chorus revealed the omen of disaster. This can all be summed up in the following lines:
Oedipus is a passionate man, who asks questions and takes risks. Despite his flaws and his sins, Oedipus is good and always seeks the truth no matter how devastating. In the end, he accepts the responsibility for his actions, his fate and punishment. Does he have free will or the ability to choose his own path or is everything in his life been predetermined? Indeed, despite the prophecy, it can never be denied that Oedipus and his parents had made the choices, not the oracle or the Gods. Is the very idea of carving out your eyes, after discovering your wife is your mother in this incredibly packed tragedy that alleviates so much the enormous pain that seems so causeless? Is the existential angst finally satisfies by the human need to identify the guilty that alleviates our human sensation of utter, senseless and chaotic misery?
This is what torments us, being humans: we have free will but we can never control everything. Oedipus鈥檚 specific life events aren鈥檛 exactly relatable to any of us, but the sensations are not less pertinent. Aren鈥檛 we used to impending unconquerable doom? I ask myself, could ignorance lead us through hell? Oedipus Rex doesn鈥檛 make us only question the role of the gods (or whatever may decide our fate nowadays: politicians, the economy, the news, and even our own expectations!), but above all the argument of fate and destiny, and whether we are able to live without external powers deciding our chances. It also makes us question who we are; whether our personalities, or other personal characteristics, are a kind of destiny in itself.
Where's our human freedom? More important: do you feel a prevailing sense of inevitability, no matter what you do?! Why are we always being judged, by ourselves and by the world? If we try to transpose the play to today, many questions are still left with no definite answers. For certain, we can choose what we want to become. The curse is that our capacities are finite; we are not gods. What happened to Oedipus was the torture of being human, can we escape this curse?
Oedipus Rex is a literary masterpiece! Highly recommended!
"Look and learn all citizens of Thebes. This is Oedipus.
He, who read the famous riddle, and we hailed chief of men,
All envied his power, glory, and good fortune.
Now upon his head the sea of disaster crashes down.鈥�
I felt after reading the play that there was not really anything that Oedipus could have done to get himself out of his destiny. In fact, it seems that the more he attempts to get out of it, the deeper he is immersed in its inevitability. It is simply that there was no way for him to avoid doing it all and facing his fate. After hearing of the prophecy he flees because he doesn't want it to come true, but there is a lot that he does not know and a lot that he is not being told. His parents, when told by the oracles decided to sacrifice him. But he was saved by the compassionate nature of humanity. Later on, his step parents also leave him in ignorance, and in hiding the truth they are also making the prophecy come true.
The theme as I see it, therefore, is of fate versus freewill. However, there really does not seem to be any freewill here. Every decision that Oedipus makes only brings the revelation closer to being fulfilled.
But to fully understand Sophocles work, you have to know that for the ancient Greeks the word "tragedy" didn't mean 鈥渁 lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster.鈥� For them the idea of such a play, that had a certain and defined theme and structure, is about a person that because of a single tragic flaw becomes the victim of the gods. The specific purpose was called "catharsis", the audience watching the play should gain an emotional release that made your own trivial issues fade into insignificance. According to Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics 鈥渢he complexity of the plot is established through reversal, recognition and suffering.鈥� The tragedy is created, in part, by the complexity of its plot which leads towards the catharsis. The Chorus is crucial; its speeches are revealing. It is the cautious voice of collective wisdom. And from the very beginning of the play, the Chorus revealed the omen of disaster. This can all be summed up in the following lines:
"O god-
All come true, all busting to light!
O light- now let me look my last on you!
I stand revealed at last-鈥�
Oedipus is a passionate man, who asks questions and takes risks. Despite his flaws and his sins, Oedipus is good and always seeks the truth no matter how devastating. In the end, he accepts the responsibility for his actions, his fate and punishment. Does he have free will or the ability to choose his own path or is everything in his life been predetermined? Indeed, despite the prophecy, it can never be denied that Oedipus and his parents had made the choices, not the oracle or the Gods. Is the very idea of carving out your eyes, after discovering your wife is your mother in this incredibly packed tragedy that alleviates so much the enormous pain that seems so causeless? Is the existential angst finally satisfies by the human need to identify the guilty that alleviates our human sensation of utter, senseless and chaotic misery?
This is what torments us, being humans: we have free will but we can never control everything. Oedipus鈥檚 specific life events aren鈥檛 exactly relatable to any of us, but the sensations are not less pertinent. Aren鈥檛 we used to impending unconquerable doom? I ask myself, could ignorance lead us through hell? Oedipus Rex doesn鈥檛 make us only question the role of the gods (or whatever may decide our fate nowadays: politicians, the economy, the news, and even our own expectations!), but above all the argument of fate and destiny, and whether we are able to live without external powers deciding our chances. It also makes us question who we are; whether our personalities, or other personal characteristics, are a kind of destiny in itself.
Where's our human freedom? More important: do you feel a prevailing sense of inevitability, no matter what you do?! Why are we always being judged, by ourselves and by the world? If we try to transpose the play to today, many questions are still left with no definite answers. For certain, we can choose what we want to become. The curse is that our capacities are finite; we are not gods. What happened to Oedipus was the torture of being human, can we escape this curse?
Oedipus Rex is a literary masterpiece! Highly recommended!
March 14, 2024
Beware: spoilers
I, too, would gouge out my eyes and flee my hometown if I found out I married my long-lost relative.
The Moirai (or Fates as they're more commonly known) played a cruel joke on Oedipus.
My childhood nemesis got married to her second cousin, but that's not as bad as what Oedipus did.
I have a soft spot for Oedipus because he is the father/brother of Antigone, my favorite heroine. Yes, he is her father AND brother.
People who know nothing about Oedipus:
Oedipus finds out his wife is also his mother, his children are also his siblings, his brother-in-law is also his uncle and the man he killed on the road was his father.
Is it wrong to laugh at this?
The fact he killed his father over road rage is the most Greek mythology thing I've ever read. Oedipus narrowly avoids being hit by his biological father's chariot at an intersection. The only logical solution is to kill Laius and his entourage. Common sense has no place in Greek mythology.
Why does everyone refer to this as a tragedy when it's obviously a dark comedy?
This reminds me of the Foo Fighters music video 'Walk,' where Dave Grohl experiences an existential crisis while stuck in traffic.
Let's rewind to the beginning.
There once was a king named Laius who ruled over Thebes. Laius had a beautiful wife named Jocasta and all the wealth and power he could desire. If this was a Disney movie, Laius and Jocasta would have a happily-ever-after ending. Unfortunately for Laius, he was a supporting character in someone else's (Greek) tragedy.
After receiving an oracle from Delphi, he was warned that if he had a child, the child would kill him and marry his wife. Can you tell where this is going? Laius got drunk one evening and forgot he wasn't supposed to have sex. We've all been there.
The oracle: don't have sex
Laius and Jocasta: what if we have sex, and if we conceive a child, we'll hire a shepherd to leave it on a mountain to die?
I find it amusing that the solution to all problems is abandoning a child on a mountain. It is reminiscent of what Priam and Hecuba did to Paris.
Several months later, baby Oedipus is born. Fearing the prophecy, Jocasta gives her child to a shepherd to be exposed on the mountainside. The shepherd takes pity on the child and gives him to another shepherd, who gives the child to the childless king and queen of Corinth.
Oedipus is raised by his adoptive parents in Corinth. He is happy until he consults the Delphi oracle, who predicts that he will kill his father and sleep with his mother. (In the days before Google, people relied on the oracle for information). Oedipus felt afraid and decided to nope out of Corinth to protect his 'parents.'
Long story short, Oedipus and his biological father meet on a random road, get into an argument, and Oedipus kills him. Road rage - claiming victims since the Heroic Age. Fate brings Oedipus to Thebes, where he becomes king and marries his mother, Jocasta, fulfilling the prophecy.
They have four children - Eteocles, Polynices, Ismene, and my beloved Antigone. Eteocles and Polynices are power-hungry idiots, Ismene is useless, and Antigone is a certified badass. That's all I have to say about that.
Throughout the book, Oedipus denies the truth and seeks reassurance that he didn't kill his father or marry his mother. Denial, thy name is Oedipus. Eventually, he accepts that he F up big time.
I shouldn't find a book that deals with attempted filicide, parricide, and incest funny, but I do.
Upon discovering the truth, Oedipus becomes furious and demands his sword to kill Jocasta. I can't help but imagine the poor servants who had to witness this unholy family drama unfold.
Luckily for him, she unalived herself. Oedipus is overcome by sadness. I'm not sure why. Just a moment ago, he was about to attack her with his sword. Anyway, he finds Jocasta dead and gouges out his eyes with the pins from her dress. Can this guy be any more dramatic?
Oedipus, saying goodbye to his daughters/half-sisters, Antigone and Ismene: Our family is messed up, and for that, I apologize. I can't be your dad anymore. I've asked your uncle Creon to take care of you. Farewell.
Me, having read Antigone:
After discovering the truth about his past, Oedipus decides to leave Thebes and go into self-imposed exile.
Upon reading it for the second time, do you know what I realized? If ancient Greece had traffic regulations, none of this would have occurred. Oedipus would not have killed his father and banged his mother if there were traffic lights and pedestrian crossings on the road. The absence of modern technology has led to all this drama.
I, too, would gouge out my eyes and flee my hometown if I found out I married my long-lost relative.
The Moirai (or Fates as they're more commonly known) played a cruel joke on Oedipus.
My childhood nemesis got married to her second cousin, but that's not as bad as what Oedipus did.
I have a soft spot for Oedipus because he is the father/brother of Antigone, my favorite heroine. Yes, he is her father AND brother.
People who know nothing about Oedipus:
Oedipus finds out his wife is also his mother, his children are also his siblings, his brother-in-law is also his uncle and the man he killed on the road was his father.
Is it wrong to laugh at this?
The fact he killed his father over road rage is the most Greek mythology thing I've ever read. Oedipus narrowly avoids being hit by his biological father's chariot at an intersection. The only logical solution is to kill Laius and his entourage. Common sense has no place in Greek mythology.
Why does everyone refer to this as a tragedy when it's obviously a dark comedy?
This reminds me of the Foo Fighters music video 'Walk,' where Dave Grohl experiences an existential crisis while stuck in traffic.
Let's rewind to the beginning.
There once was a king named Laius who ruled over Thebes. Laius had a beautiful wife named Jocasta and all the wealth and power he could desire. If this was a Disney movie, Laius and Jocasta would have a happily-ever-after ending. Unfortunately for Laius, he was a supporting character in someone else's (Greek) tragedy.
After receiving an oracle from Delphi, he was warned that if he had a child, the child would kill him and marry his wife. Can you tell where this is going? Laius got drunk one evening and forgot he wasn't supposed to have sex. We've all been there.
The oracle: don't have sex
Laius and Jocasta: what if we have sex, and if we conceive a child, we'll hire a shepherd to leave it on a mountain to die?
I find it amusing that the solution to all problems is abandoning a child on a mountain. It is reminiscent of what Priam and Hecuba did to Paris.
Several months later, baby Oedipus is born. Fearing the prophecy, Jocasta gives her child to a shepherd to be exposed on the mountainside. The shepherd takes pity on the child and gives him to another shepherd, who gives the child to the childless king and queen of Corinth.
Oedipus is raised by his adoptive parents in Corinth. He is happy until he consults the Delphi oracle, who predicts that he will kill his father and sleep with his mother. (In the days before Google, people relied on the oracle for information). Oedipus felt afraid and decided to nope out of Corinth to protect his 'parents.'
Long story short, Oedipus and his biological father meet on a random road, get into an argument, and Oedipus kills him. Road rage - claiming victims since the Heroic Age. Fate brings Oedipus to Thebes, where he becomes king and marries his mother, Jocasta, fulfilling the prophecy.
They have four children - Eteocles, Polynices, Ismene, and my beloved Antigone. Eteocles and Polynices are power-hungry idiots, Ismene is useless, and Antigone is a certified badass. That's all I have to say about that.
Throughout the book, Oedipus denies the truth and seeks reassurance that he didn't kill his father or marry his mother. Denial, thy name is Oedipus. Eventually, he accepts that he F up big time.
I shouldn't find a book that deals with attempted filicide, parricide, and incest funny, but I do.
Upon discovering the truth, Oedipus becomes furious and demands his sword to kill Jocasta. I can't help but imagine the poor servants who had to witness this unholy family drama unfold.
Luckily for him, she unalived herself. Oedipus is overcome by sadness. I'm not sure why. Just a moment ago, he was about to attack her with his sword. Anyway, he finds Jocasta dead and gouges out his eyes with the pins from her dress. Can this guy be any more dramatic?
Oedipus, saying goodbye to his daughters/half-sisters, Antigone and Ismene: Our family is messed up, and for that, I apologize. I can't be your dad anymore. I've asked your uncle Creon to take care of you. Farewell.
Me, having read Antigone:
After discovering the truth about his past, Oedipus decides to leave Thebes and go into self-imposed exile.
Upon reading it for the second time, do you know what I realized? If ancient Greece had traffic regulations, none of this would have occurred. Oedipus would not have killed his father and banged his mother if there were traffic lights and pedestrian crossings on the road. The absence of modern technology has led to all this drama.
May 1, 2022
' is arguably one of the best plays of all time that inspired a large portion of the modern train of thought, and literary critics gave the play the epithet 鈥淢ona Lisa鈥� of drama. It was certainly 鈥檚 favorite play as he stated in , naming Oedipus the perfect tragic hero. The core of the play is not what happens on the stage, but what already happened offstage, as Sophocles reveals the consequences of the acts, not the acts themselves. To understand the context of the play, one must dive into the mythology.
Oedipus genealogy
Oedipus's father, Laius, was a descendant of Cadmus, an ancient king of Thebes, and Cadmus both sister Europa and daughter Semele were raped by Zeus. Laius himself raped Chrysippus, son of king Pelops, who cursed Laius that his son would kill him. Pelops also had his trauma with his father Tantalus who sacrificed Pelops; he cooked him and offered him as a meal. Seeing what he had done, the gods brought Pelops back to life and doomed Tantalus to eternal thirst and hunger. So Oedipus' acts were a consequence of the long-standing history of rape and violence in the family tree. The direct sequence of transgenerational hatred and sacrifice in the father-son relationship finally led to its result - as in psychosexual development, oral and anal aggression preceded incest with mother.
Oedipus鈥檚 birth
Having the prophecy in mind, Laius did not want to have children, and his wife Jocasta seduced him while he was drunk. After Oedipus' birth, Laius pierced the legs of his newborn baby in the ankles and then left Oedipus to die on a mountain where shepherds saved him. Oedipus's birth is accompanied by common themes of the birth of a hero as a Divine child (Moses, Jesus) - there is an attempt of infanticide, and nature, not civilization, accepts the hero and saves him. The birth of Oedipus is a sign that he is preordained to be a hero - one who will change the current order and rules in society and bring a new element.
Oedipus and Sphinx
Later on, also not seen in the play, Oedipus saves the city of Thebes from a monster Sphinx, sent by Hera to punish Thebes for the crimes of Laius. Sphinx posed a riddle to Oedipus; What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and three legs in the evening? Oedipus answers correctly - a man and here is the first irony - the answer is man but also Oedipus himself, and in the unity of time and place in the play of Oedipus Rex, we will see Oedipus in all three states in one day, making himself the living answer to the riddle.
The Plague
The play starts with a priest begging Oedipus for help as the city of Thebes suffers greatly because of the plague. Here is prominent the concept of pollution and bloodguilt that were of great importance in Greek society. The Greeks believed that the destructive acts of nature were the work of the gods - so they would suggest that a monumental transgression was committed that violates the order of creation, moral wrongdoing that created bloodguilt that requires purification. What drives Oedipus to knowledge is the search for meaning of suffering.
Creon suggests that the cure for the plague is to know the king's Laius murderers and execute them, or to banish them from Thebes. So, the answer to the riddle of plague is also Oedipus himself, as he is the killer of Laius. The one who saved Thebes actually destroys it and Oedipus ironically curses the murderer of Laius, not knowing he is cursing himself. To cleanse the city of Thebes and be its saviour, Oedipus will have to become a living sacrifice, mirroring the image of Jesus, a scapegoat figure that carries the sins of the collective.
All people come to psychoanalysis with the plague of their own, Freud noted - something that bothers them that actually points to deeper issues, ones that are not so easily discovered.
Search for truth, knowledge and identity
The circumstances of his birth, lineage, and life have made the art of knowing (the Greek oida, 鈥淚 know鈥�) the essential task of Oedipus鈥檚 life, which goes with the essence of Apollo and his maxima at the prophecy in Delphi - "Know thyself." Oedipus is the man of knowledge who solved the Sphinx riddle and the inherent part of the riddle is idea of man's knowledge and self-reflection. Oedipus' ruin is caused by his loyalty in resolute search for the truth which serves as a warning - being an honest seeker of truth oftentimes leads to the ugly truth about yourself - that you yourself are all the things you hate, that you yourself broke the ultimate social taboos. Freud believed that Sophocles' tragedy is an act of revelation, which emphasizes the connection between tragic recognition and psychoanalytic work. Both liberation and tragedy come through searching for yourself, as the answer to the question - 鈥漌hy is there evil and suffering?鈥� is: 鈥滲ecause of my corrupt nature鈥�. Sophocles poses the question; 鈥滻s all knowledge good?鈥� Tiresias, the prophet that Oedipus begged to tell him the truth, refused in the beginning, but Oedipus did not respect his authority. Tiresias then has a beautiful line:
鈥淗ow terrible is wisdom when / it brings no profit to the man that鈥檚 wise!鈥�
Oedipus remains faithful to the end to his assumption that knowledge - consciousness - is superior to ignorance - illusions, and that is ultimately his demise. H. E. Grimaldi said: "It is not good to realize, it is not healthy to realize, if one realizes the entirety, it psychotisies芦.
This goes against the whole core value of Greek culture - to know, embodied in Apollo, god of light, knowledge and reason. Even though Greek culture gave foundations to the modern Western civilization - much like Oedipus gave a lot of answers to fundamental questions - it collapsed and was destroyed, again like Oedipus, in the questions of flesh, flooded with bloodguilt and sexual perversions. Even with all the sacrifices we make to Apollo, at night we serve Bacchus in primordial impulses we fail to contain, because the law of Bacchus, not Apollo, is intertwined with our flesh. Oedipus and Greek culture give a universal example of a conscious man that is crucified by unconscious impulses, and collapses under them, as the gap between reason and body becomes wider, materializing the ancient cry of St. Paul; 鈥漌ith the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.鈥� Opposite to what Greeks believed, knowledge does not bring salvation, as all the knowledge we have in Western civilization did not change the vile nature of men.
Sight and Blindness
"Oida" in Greek also means - to see. The theme of sight and blindness is prominent in Oedipus Rex. Sophocles poses a lot of contradictions; Tiresias, a prophet who was blind, could see and understand the truth at the level of Apollo and knew the whole truth about Oedipus. Oedipus, a man of knowledge, could see, but he did not know. When he finally found out, he couldn't bear to see and made himself blind. Here we can also see a warning, as Oedipus's fall is often reacted in the fall of the wise man - a man who has a great deal of wisdom is usually paradoxically completely blind to the truth about himself. Oedipus solved the question posed to civilization, but could not solve the question of his life and he did not see that these two questions are actually one. This states the important lesson - the universal question are always easier to solve than personal ones. The choir also states that they would have liked to have been blind and had not seen this - the story of Oedipus is difficult for us, as it brings us a great deal of discomfort and we sometimes wish we did not see Oedipus in ourselves.
Oedipus Complex
As Oedipus brings a great deal of discomfort to the choir, so does the Oedipus complex to the whole of humanity, a term coined by Freud that means the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. According to psychoanalytic theory, the complex appears during the Oedipal phase of libidinal and ego development that is, between the ages of three and five years. The resolution of the Oedipus complex is identifying with the father, constructing the Superego, and transmitting sexual desires from the mother to other female figures. Freud believed that the Oedipus complex must be resolved, not suppressed - otherwise, neurosis arises and reflects in the symptoms of suppressed desires, ones that we can analyze in Hamlet.
Freud鈥檚 life
What is perhaps not very much known, is that Freud鈥檚 life in a great deal mirrored Oedipus'. He was the eldest son in his family and his mother was pretty and 20 years younger than his father. Freud has always been very attached to his mother, and he was her favorite child. In the process of auto analysis, he was driven to think of the Oedipus complex. Oedipus and the mythical paradigm became the bearer of a new hypothesis and seemed to guarantee its universality. After reaching the age of 40, after the death of his father, Freud ceased his active sexual life, which could be interpreted as equivalent to blindness or castration. His daughter, Anna Freud, played the role of Antigone, and his death in exile in England parallels Oedipus' death on the Colon. In that sense, we can have a nuanced understanding of the famous quote about Oedipus from the , chapter V;
鈥淗is destiny moves us only because it might have been ours鈥攂ecause the oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him.鈥�
The Murder of Father
In the patriarchal society of ancient Greece, the aversion to the murder of the father was extremely intense, as we can see in 's punishment for the father-killers; 鈥淔or this act, he says, there can be no purification: the murderer will be killed, his body will be laid naked at a crossroads outside the city, every civil servant will throw a stone at him and curse him, and then the bloody remnant will be thrown outside the city territory and leave it unburied. 鈥�
Freud believed that death wish aimed at our father is deep-rooted in our unconscious, as he explained in . Freud pointed out that three epochal works of literature deal with the same theme - patricide - referring to Oedipus Rex, and . Freud also believed that aggression towards the father is the basis for regicide, also committed by Oedipus, as well as being explored in , and also the root of the murder of the prophet in the monotheistic religions and crucifixion of the Son of God.
Oedipus consciously repeats the wish to murder father by attacking the godly authority of Tiresias and the political authority of Creon, as we continually repeat our unconscious death wish aimed at father in passion with which we attack the male authority in different forms, over and over again. Is not the most hated figure of the modern world the "white man in a position of power"?
As Freud said in ; 鈥淎nd so, if we are to be judged by our unconscious wishful impulses, we ourselves are, like primaeval man, a gang of murderers.鈥�
Laius complex
in his essay; "Why Oedipus Killed Laius" added Laius and Jocasta's complex, pointing out the sadistic and (homo)sexual components of these complexes. This neglect of the complementary Oedipus complexes Devereux locates in the adult's need to place all responsibility for the Oedipus complex on the child and to ignore "some parental attitudes that actually encourage Oedipal tendencies in the child." Laius rapes Crispus, son of Pelops, who curses that his own son will kill him in what seems to be a protection from the aggressive and homosexual impulses of the father. Laius is not a good man but one who violates good customs, and his death is caused by his character (as Oedipus killed him in self-defense) which included his propensity for violence. His fate is a personification of character structure and its need to carry out its intra-psychological conflicts in the reality. Oedipus' aggression against his father was fueled by his father's aggression, perpetuating the cycle of hostility between the father and son, as tyrannical aspects of patriarchy add fuel to our aggression towards the symbolical father.
Longing for Mother
鈥滿any a man has slept with his mother in dreams. He who dismisses such thoughts lives easiest.鈥�
Incest is more destructive to life than paternal murder; one incestuous act violates the sanctity of both maternal and marital love. Christopher Rocco writes: 鈥滻n breaking the taboos against patricide and incest, Oedipus destroys the boundaries that separate the civilized city from savage nature, humanity from bestiality. By killing his father and wedding his mother, Oedipus disrupts the 鈥渘atural鈥� succession of generations.鈥�.
, the famous theorist of psychoanalysis post-Freud, argued that sexual impulses are not vital in the relationship with the mother, as self-formation is accomplished through a complex relationship with others, not only through psychosexual maturation. She stated that longing for a mother does not consist of sexual feelings only, but stems from the relationship with the mother- which means life, care, love, play, fulfillment, pleasure - in fantasy all that a child aspires to. But Klein also observed that child has ambivalent feelings towards both of his parents, as it both loves and hates them. in her work 鈥滿ermaid and Minotaur鈥� talks about the earliest experiences of an omnipotent mother that creates fear and aversion to woman and nature, as a person does not want to re-experience extreme dependence on a powerful mother, which is why he tries to control her. Here the issue of sexual attraction is seen as an attempt to establish power over an omnipotent mother, as sexualization makes a woman a less terrifying, powerful object. According to that, we can observe Oedipus's marriage with Jocasta as a will to power.
But the sexual aspect of the Oedipus complex is one thing that always troubled society the most invoking the repulsion and ridicule of Freud鈥檚 thought. At the end of the day, Oedipus did not know that Jocasta is his mother, does that makes all sexual attraction of young men to older women incestuous? Anyways, the modern phenomenon of 鈥滿ILF鈥�, prevalent in all porn sites, speaks louder than Freud even could, confirming once again that art replicates reality.
Determinism and free will
How free was Edip from his destiny is the question that bothered the scholars for years. Did Sophocles reject individual responsibility and showed that divine forces determine crime and make people's moral instincts powerless? Certain Oedipal actions act are fatefully bound by the fulfillment of prophecy, but everything he does on stage from the first to the last he does of his own free will. Dodds argued that what makes Oedipus so attractive is "the spectacle of a man who freely chooses from the highest motives a series of actions that lead to his own downfall."
Guilt and justice
Oedipus committed paternal murder and incest; that is, he greatly offended two fundamental laws, or holiness, of human life 鈥� was he innocent and did he deserve punishment? Can a man be guilty of something he has committed out of ignorance? Plato among the polluted people especially includes a man who actually committed an offense with his own hand even if he did what he did completely unintentionally. Someone uses his free will to unconsciously select a woman that resembles his mother - but he still has to live with the consequences of the choice. Aristotle talks about hamartia - tragic guilt - that influenced the interpretation of Oedipus greatly. Oedipus fulfills prophecy, and it is at the same time necessity and causality - the things he did, he did in complete disregard for the facts he had.
Freud stated: "Accident and prophecy here are only the materialization of inner necessity: the fact that the hero committed a crime unintentionally, even without knowing that he committed it, should be understood as a true expression of the unconscious nature of his criminal aspirations."
And that is the brilliance of Oedipus Rex play - if Oedipus killed any old man, or married any older woman the same unconscious aspirations of Oedipus complex would be at play here, ones that we ought to analyze to get to them - but the irony of the situations is that he accidentally perfectly embodied the symbolic meaning of the acts - and in his fate, the symbolical meets the factual. Oedipus's self-mutilation and self-expulsion are equally free acts of choice. Oedipus's punishment comes from himself, the Superego is the one who punishes us for our unconscious impulses.
Oedipus as a Hero
Oedipus's guilt, but also virtuosity, makes him a perfect hero. Oedipus is both a victim and a criminal, both a savior and destroyer. In the beginning, he is a model of virtue; optimistic, confident and benevolent - but when his rule is threatened, he becomes paranoid, angry, punishing and tyrannical. Oedipus embodies the pairs of opposites and all our conscious and unconscious ambivalence. Oedipus is a symbol of the triumph of light over darkness, the conscious over the unconscious, a man who was consistent and loyal to truth till the end-prepared to pay a tragic price of self-knowledge.
in gave the perfect commentary and conclusion to Oedipus;
鈥漈he noble human being does not sin, so this profound poet wants to tell us; every law, all natural order, indeed the moral world, may be destroyed by his actions, yet by these very actions a higher, magical circle of effects is drawn which found a new world on the ruins of the old one that has been overthrown.鈥�
Oedipus genealogy
Oedipus's father, Laius, was a descendant of Cadmus, an ancient king of Thebes, and Cadmus both sister Europa and daughter Semele were raped by Zeus. Laius himself raped Chrysippus, son of king Pelops, who cursed Laius that his son would kill him. Pelops also had his trauma with his father Tantalus who sacrificed Pelops; he cooked him and offered him as a meal. Seeing what he had done, the gods brought Pelops back to life and doomed Tantalus to eternal thirst and hunger. So Oedipus' acts were a consequence of the long-standing history of rape and violence in the family tree. The direct sequence of transgenerational hatred and sacrifice in the father-son relationship finally led to its result - as in psychosexual development, oral and anal aggression preceded incest with mother.
Oedipus鈥檚 birth
Having the prophecy in mind, Laius did not want to have children, and his wife Jocasta seduced him while he was drunk. After Oedipus' birth, Laius pierced the legs of his newborn baby in the ankles and then left Oedipus to die on a mountain where shepherds saved him. Oedipus's birth is accompanied by common themes of the birth of a hero as a Divine child (Moses, Jesus) - there is an attempt of infanticide, and nature, not civilization, accepts the hero and saves him. The birth of Oedipus is a sign that he is preordained to be a hero - one who will change the current order and rules in society and bring a new element.
Oedipus and Sphinx
Later on, also not seen in the play, Oedipus saves the city of Thebes from a monster Sphinx, sent by Hera to punish Thebes for the crimes of Laius. Sphinx posed a riddle to Oedipus; What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and three legs in the evening? Oedipus answers correctly - a man and here is the first irony - the answer is man but also Oedipus himself, and in the unity of time and place in the play of Oedipus Rex, we will see Oedipus in all three states in one day, making himself the living answer to the riddle.
The Plague
The play starts with a priest begging Oedipus for help as the city of Thebes suffers greatly because of the plague. Here is prominent the concept of pollution and bloodguilt that were of great importance in Greek society. The Greeks believed that the destructive acts of nature were the work of the gods - so they would suggest that a monumental transgression was committed that violates the order of creation, moral wrongdoing that created bloodguilt that requires purification. What drives Oedipus to knowledge is the search for meaning of suffering.
Creon suggests that the cure for the plague is to know the king's Laius murderers and execute them, or to banish them from Thebes. So, the answer to the riddle of plague is also Oedipus himself, as he is the killer of Laius. The one who saved Thebes actually destroys it and Oedipus ironically curses the murderer of Laius, not knowing he is cursing himself. To cleanse the city of Thebes and be its saviour, Oedipus will have to become a living sacrifice, mirroring the image of Jesus, a scapegoat figure that carries the sins of the collective.
All people come to psychoanalysis with the plague of their own, Freud noted - something that bothers them that actually points to deeper issues, ones that are not so easily discovered.
Search for truth, knowledge and identity
The circumstances of his birth, lineage, and life have made the art of knowing (the Greek oida, 鈥淚 know鈥�) the essential task of Oedipus鈥檚 life, which goes with the essence of Apollo and his maxima at the prophecy in Delphi - "Know thyself." Oedipus is the man of knowledge who solved the Sphinx riddle and the inherent part of the riddle is idea of man's knowledge and self-reflection. Oedipus' ruin is caused by his loyalty in resolute search for the truth which serves as a warning - being an honest seeker of truth oftentimes leads to the ugly truth about yourself - that you yourself are all the things you hate, that you yourself broke the ultimate social taboos. Freud believed that Sophocles' tragedy is an act of revelation, which emphasizes the connection between tragic recognition and psychoanalytic work. Both liberation and tragedy come through searching for yourself, as the answer to the question - 鈥漌hy is there evil and suffering?鈥� is: 鈥滲ecause of my corrupt nature鈥�. Sophocles poses the question; 鈥滻s all knowledge good?鈥� Tiresias, the prophet that Oedipus begged to tell him the truth, refused in the beginning, but Oedipus did not respect his authority. Tiresias then has a beautiful line:
鈥淗ow terrible is wisdom when / it brings no profit to the man that鈥檚 wise!鈥�
Oedipus remains faithful to the end to his assumption that knowledge - consciousness - is superior to ignorance - illusions, and that is ultimately his demise. H. E. Grimaldi said: "It is not good to realize, it is not healthy to realize, if one realizes the entirety, it psychotisies芦.
This goes against the whole core value of Greek culture - to know, embodied in Apollo, god of light, knowledge and reason. Even though Greek culture gave foundations to the modern Western civilization - much like Oedipus gave a lot of answers to fundamental questions - it collapsed and was destroyed, again like Oedipus, in the questions of flesh, flooded with bloodguilt and sexual perversions. Even with all the sacrifices we make to Apollo, at night we serve Bacchus in primordial impulses we fail to contain, because the law of Bacchus, not Apollo, is intertwined with our flesh. Oedipus and Greek culture give a universal example of a conscious man that is crucified by unconscious impulses, and collapses under them, as the gap between reason and body becomes wider, materializing the ancient cry of St. Paul; 鈥漌ith the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.鈥� Opposite to what Greeks believed, knowledge does not bring salvation, as all the knowledge we have in Western civilization did not change the vile nature of men.
Sight and Blindness
"Oida" in Greek also means - to see. The theme of sight and blindness is prominent in Oedipus Rex. Sophocles poses a lot of contradictions; Tiresias, a prophet who was blind, could see and understand the truth at the level of Apollo and knew the whole truth about Oedipus. Oedipus, a man of knowledge, could see, but he did not know. When he finally found out, he couldn't bear to see and made himself blind. Here we can also see a warning, as Oedipus's fall is often reacted in the fall of the wise man - a man who has a great deal of wisdom is usually paradoxically completely blind to the truth about himself. Oedipus solved the question posed to civilization, but could not solve the question of his life and he did not see that these two questions are actually one. This states the important lesson - the universal question are always easier to solve than personal ones. The choir also states that they would have liked to have been blind and had not seen this - the story of Oedipus is difficult for us, as it brings us a great deal of discomfort and we sometimes wish we did not see Oedipus in ourselves.
Oedipus Complex
As Oedipus brings a great deal of discomfort to the choir, so does the Oedipus complex to the whole of humanity, a term coined by Freud that means the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. According to psychoanalytic theory, the complex appears during the Oedipal phase of libidinal and ego development that is, between the ages of three and five years. The resolution of the Oedipus complex is identifying with the father, constructing the Superego, and transmitting sexual desires from the mother to other female figures. Freud believed that the Oedipus complex must be resolved, not suppressed - otherwise, neurosis arises and reflects in the symptoms of suppressed desires, ones that we can analyze in Hamlet.
Freud鈥檚 life
What is perhaps not very much known, is that Freud鈥檚 life in a great deal mirrored Oedipus'. He was the eldest son in his family and his mother was pretty and 20 years younger than his father. Freud has always been very attached to his mother, and he was her favorite child. In the process of auto analysis, he was driven to think of the Oedipus complex. Oedipus and the mythical paradigm became the bearer of a new hypothesis and seemed to guarantee its universality. After reaching the age of 40, after the death of his father, Freud ceased his active sexual life, which could be interpreted as equivalent to blindness or castration. His daughter, Anna Freud, played the role of Antigone, and his death in exile in England parallels Oedipus' death on the Colon. In that sense, we can have a nuanced understanding of the famous quote about Oedipus from the , chapter V;
鈥淗is destiny moves us only because it might have been ours鈥攂ecause the oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him.鈥�
The Murder of Father
In the patriarchal society of ancient Greece, the aversion to the murder of the father was extremely intense, as we can see in 's punishment for the father-killers; 鈥淔or this act, he says, there can be no purification: the murderer will be killed, his body will be laid naked at a crossroads outside the city, every civil servant will throw a stone at him and curse him, and then the bloody remnant will be thrown outside the city territory and leave it unburied. 鈥�
Freud believed that death wish aimed at our father is deep-rooted in our unconscious, as he explained in . Freud pointed out that three epochal works of literature deal with the same theme - patricide - referring to Oedipus Rex, and . Freud also believed that aggression towards the father is the basis for regicide, also committed by Oedipus, as well as being explored in , and also the root of the murder of the prophet in the monotheistic religions and crucifixion of the Son of God.
Oedipus consciously repeats the wish to murder father by attacking the godly authority of Tiresias and the political authority of Creon, as we continually repeat our unconscious death wish aimed at father in passion with which we attack the male authority in different forms, over and over again. Is not the most hated figure of the modern world the "white man in a position of power"?
As Freud said in ; 鈥淎nd so, if we are to be judged by our unconscious wishful impulses, we ourselves are, like primaeval man, a gang of murderers.鈥�
Laius complex
in his essay; "Why Oedipus Killed Laius" added Laius and Jocasta's complex, pointing out the sadistic and (homo)sexual components of these complexes. This neglect of the complementary Oedipus complexes Devereux locates in the adult's need to place all responsibility for the Oedipus complex on the child and to ignore "some parental attitudes that actually encourage Oedipal tendencies in the child." Laius rapes Crispus, son of Pelops, who curses that his own son will kill him in what seems to be a protection from the aggressive and homosexual impulses of the father. Laius is not a good man but one who violates good customs, and his death is caused by his character (as Oedipus killed him in self-defense) which included his propensity for violence. His fate is a personification of character structure and its need to carry out its intra-psychological conflicts in the reality. Oedipus' aggression against his father was fueled by his father's aggression, perpetuating the cycle of hostility between the father and son, as tyrannical aspects of patriarchy add fuel to our aggression towards the symbolical father.
Longing for Mother
鈥滿any a man has slept with his mother in dreams. He who dismisses such thoughts lives easiest.鈥�
Incest is more destructive to life than paternal murder; one incestuous act violates the sanctity of both maternal and marital love. Christopher Rocco writes: 鈥滻n breaking the taboos against patricide and incest, Oedipus destroys the boundaries that separate the civilized city from savage nature, humanity from bestiality. By killing his father and wedding his mother, Oedipus disrupts the 鈥渘atural鈥� succession of generations.鈥�.
, the famous theorist of psychoanalysis post-Freud, argued that sexual impulses are not vital in the relationship with the mother, as self-formation is accomplished through a complex relationship with others, not only through psychosexual maturation. She stated that longing for a mother does not consist of sexual feelings only, but stems from the relationship with the mother- which means life, care, love, play, fulfillment, pleasure - in fantasy all that a child aspires to. But Klein also observed that child has ambivalent feelings towards both of his parents, as it both loves and hates them. in her work 鈥滿ermaid and Minotaur鈥� talks about the earliest experiences of an omnipotent mother that creates fear and aversion to woman and nature, as a person does not want to re-experience extreme dependence on a powerful mother, which is why he tries to control her. Here the issue of sexual attraction is seen as an attempt to establish power over an omnipotent mother, as sexualization makes a woman a less terrifying, powerful object. According to that, we can observe Oedipus's marriage with Jocasta as a will to power.
But the sexual aspect of the Oedipus complex is one thing that always troubled society the most invoking the repulsion and ridicule of Freud鈥檚 thought. At the end of the day, Oedipus did not know that Jocasta is his mother, does that makes all sexual attraction of young men to older women incestuous? Anyways, the modern phenomenon of 鈥滿ILF鈥�, prevalent in all porn sites, speaks louder than Freud even could, confirming once again that art replicates reality.
Determinism and free will
How free was Edip from his destiny is the question that bothered the scholars for years. Did Sophocles reject individual responsibility and showed that divine forces determine crime and make people's moral instincts powerless? Certain Oedipal actions act are fatefully bound by the fulfillment of prophecy, but everything he does on stage from the first to the last he does of his own free will. Dodds argued that what makes Oedipus so attractive is "the spectacle of a man who freely chooses from the highest motives a series of actions that lead to his own downfall."
Guilt and justice
Oedipus committed paternal murder and incest; that is, he greatly offended two fundamental laws, or holiness, of human life 鈥� was he innocent and did he deserve punishment? Can a man be guilty of something he has committed out of ignorance? Plato among the polluted people especially includes a man who actually committed an offense with his own hand even if he did what he did completely unintentionally. Someone uses his free will to unconsciously select a woman that resembles his mother - but he still has to live with the consequences of the choice. Aristotle talks about hamartia - tragic guilt - that influenced the interpretation of Oedipus greatly. Oedipus fulfills prophecy, and it is at the same time necessity and causality - the things he did, he did in complete disregard for the facts he had.
Freud stated: "Accident and prophecy here are only the materialization of inner necessity: the fact that the hero committed a crime unintentionally, even without knowing that he committed it, should be understood as a true expression of the unconscious nature of his criminal aspirations."
And that is the brilliance of Oedipus Rex play - if Oedipus killed any old man, or married any older woman the same unconscious aspirations of Oedipus complex would be at play here, ones that we ought to analyze to get to them - but the irony of the situations is that he accidentally perfectly embodied the symbolic meaning of the acts - and in his fate, the symbolical meets the factual. Oedipus's self-mutilation and self-expulsion are equally free acts of choice. Oedipus's punishment comes from himself, the Superego is the one who punishes us for our unconscious impulses.
Oedipus as a Hero
Oedipus's guilt, but also virtuosity, makes him a perfect hero. Oedipus is both a victim and a criminal, both a savior and destroyer. In the beginning, he is a model of virtue; optimistic, confident and benevolent - but when his rule is threatened, he becomes paranoid, angry, punishing and tyrannical. Oedipus embodies the pairs of opposites and all our conscious and unconscious ambivalence. Oedipus is a symbol of the triumph of light over darkness, the conscious over the unconscious, a man who was consistent and loyal to truth till the end-prepared to pay a tragic price of self-knowledge.
in gave the perfect commentary and conclusion to Oedipus;
鈥漈he noble human being does not sin, so this profound poet wants to tell us; every law, all natural order, indeed the moral world, may be destroyed by his actions, yet by these very actions a higher, magical circle of effects is drawn which found a new world on the ruins of the old one that has been overthrown.鈥�
November 20, 2021
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..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 禺賵丕賴乇丕賳賲! 丌賴 禺賵丕賴乇丕賳 倬丿乇 禺賵丿
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 丌蹖丕 倬丿乇鬲 乇丕
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 亘丕夭 賴賲 乇賳噩蹖 丿蹖诏乇 賵 卮讴賳噩賴鈥屫й� 鬲丕夭賴責
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 鬲賵 丕賵 乇丕 讴卮鬲蹖責
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 丌乇蹖 丕賲丕 亘賴 丨賯
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 亘賴 丨賯責
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 丌乇蹖 (賳丕卮賳丕禺鬲賴貙 丿乇 乇丕賴) 讴爻蹖 乇丕 讴卮鬲賲 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 賲乇丕 亘讴卮丿
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 25/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 28/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles賵 that was first performed around 429 BC. Oedipus sent his brother-in-law Creon to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi concerning a plague ravaging Thebes.
Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former King, Laius, had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague. ...
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賯爻賲鬲蹖 丕夭 賳賲丕蹖卮賳丕賲赖
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囒屬� 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賴蹖丕賴賵蹖蹖 乇丕 讴賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丕賲乇賵夭 亘乇 爻乇 夭亘丕賳賴丕爻鬲 亘丿丕賳蹖賲
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 賵丕蹖 亘乇 賲賳
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 丌乇丕賲 亘丕卮 鬲賲賳丕 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 亘爻蹖丕乇 賳丕賴賳噩丕乇 丕爻鬲. 亘丕乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬�. 賲賳 賳丕乇賵丕鬲乇蹖賳 亘蹖丿丕丿 乇丕 亘乇 禺賵丿 賴賲賵丕乇 讴乇丿賲. 賲賳 爻鬲賲蹖 賳丕爻夭丕賵丕乇 亘乇 禺賵丿 賴賲賵丕乇 讴乇丿賲. 禺丿丕 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀� 讴賴 丕禺鬲蹖丕乇蹖 丿乇 讴丕乇 賳亘賵丿
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..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 丿乇 丕夭丿賵丕噩蹖 賳賳诏蹖賳 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮乇賲貙 賳丕丿丕賳爻鬲賴 亘賴 夭賳丕卮賵蹖蹖 乇爻賵丕蹖蹖 丿爻鬲 夭丿賲
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..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 亘蹖丕丿 丌賵乇丿賳 丌賳 丿乇 丨讴賲 賲乇诏 賲賳 丕爻鬲. 鬲丕夭賴 丕蹖賳 丿賵 賳蹖夭(丌賳鬲蹖诏賳賴 賵 丕蹖爻賲賳賴) 丕夭 丌賳 賲賳賳丿
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 賳賴
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 賮乇夭賳丿丕賳 賳賮乇蹖賳 卮丿賴
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 丌賴貙 禺丿丕蹖丕
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 賵 賲蹖賵賴鈥屬囏й� 亘胤賳 賴賲丕賳 賲丕丿乇
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 丿禺鬲乇丕賳 鬲賵 賵
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 禺賵丕賴乇丕賳賲! 丌賴 禺賵丕賴乇丕賳 倬丿乇 禺賵丿
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 丌蹖丕 倬丿乇鬲 乇丕
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 亘丕夭 賴賲 乇賳噩蹖 丿蹖诏乇 賵 卮讴賳噩賴鈥屫й� 鬲丕夭賴責
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 鬲賵 丕賵 乇丕 讴卮鬲蹖責
..丕丿蹖倬賵爻: 丌乇蹖 丕賲丕 亘賴 丨賯
.賴賲爻乇丕蹖丕賳: 亘賴 丨賯責
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 25/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 28/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
March 4, 2024
I liked "Oedipus the King" - but not as much as other tragedies - for example, "Antigone" by the same author.
The piece is very well made; the characters are consistent from start to finish; the main character, Oedipus, is very successful, and his journey is fascinating. Moreover, it has an exciting evolution of the play; some stunning pieces are still of excellent quality. "Oedipus King" has the merit of not being boring. Without finding the work transcendent and brilliant, one can, it seems to me, at least have a pleasant time reading it.
However, we must admit that I was not transcended by "Oedipus King"; I only loved her and nothing more. Indeed, if "Oedipus the King" is an exciting piece in many respects, the fact prevents us from fully appreciating it. Indeed, a large part of the play was based on the name of the murderer of Laios. However, very few people today are unaware of this revelation. So when it occurs, it cannot have the same effect on us as it does on the characters. In my opinion, this prevents us from empathizing with the characters, understanding them, and feeling the shock of this revelation, which is the play's high point.
I find "Oedipus the King" exciting but, in certain respects, a victim of its success. This success prevents, in my opinion, the work from having all the interest that the play could claim to have.
The piece is very well made; the characters are consistent from start to finish; the main character, Oedipus, is very successful, and his journey is fascinating. Moreover, it has an exciting evolution of the play; some stunning pieces are still of excellent quality. "Oedipus King" has the merit of not being boring. Without finding the work transcendent and brilliant, one can, it seems to me, at least have a pleasant time reading it.
However, we must admit that I was not transcended by "Oedipus King"; I only loved her and nothing more. Indeed, if "Oedipus the King" is an exciting piece in many respects, the fact prevents us from fully appreciating it. Indeed, a large part of the play was based on the name of the murderer of Laios. However, very few people today are unaware of this revelation. So when it occurs, it cannot have the same effect on us as it does on the characters. In my opinion, this prevents us from empathizing with the characters, understanding them, and feeling the shock of this revelation, which is the play's high point.
I find "Oedipus the King" exciting but, in certain respects, a victim of its success. This success prevents, in my opinion, the work from having all the interest that the play could claim to have.
October 6, 2023
El complejo de Edipo es lo 煤nico que yo conoc铆a de esta obra, sin haberla le铆do todo mundo sabemos sobre la lectura que se le ha hecho desde el psicoan谩lisis. Pero tambi茅n est谩 el tema de que Edipo est谩 buscando a un culpable que resulta ser 茅l. Es muy fuerte como historia, una tragedia que me parece s煤per moderna, y esa idea, el enemigo est谩 dentro de t铆, tiene un gran simbolismo, que me parece importante, y en todo momento presente, actual铆simo.
January 11, 2016
"Look and learn all citizens of Thebes. This is Oedipus.
He, who read the famous riddle, and we hailed chief of men,
All envied his power, glory, and good fortune.
Now upon his head the sea of disaster crashes down.
Mortality is man鈥檚 burden. Keep your eyes fixed on your last day.
Call no man happy until he reaches it, and finds rest from suffering."
I believe that in one way or another, everyone - at least to some extent - has heard of the story of Oedipus and Jocasta. It's one of those tales that's been on our collective consciousness forever even though we may not even be able to assertively answer about its origins. The same might be said, for example, of Odysseus and Don Quixote: they've been so used and re-used, adapted and re-adapted throughout so many generations and in so many different formats that one might as well state they were simply born within us, for they're public and common knowledge. I, for one, believed Oedipus and Jocasta's tale came from the Bible! As I was never a religious person and therefore never payed much attention to it - and unfortunately never decently studied Greek mythology -, I used to unconsciously attribute to the Bible the origins of all stories which seemed to me as too ancient to properly date. I'm terribly sorry and embarrassed about that, . I stand corrected now.
Every time I read an ancient text I recurrently find myself to blame because of the same mistake: being surprised by its quality despite being written so long ago. It turns out more and more I agree with an analysis I've read somewhere that states that, unlike science, there is no progress, no discovery in art. An artist, while he creates, is not helped by the efforts of all the others - like scientists are - and depends upon his own individual truths. The ancient art is in no way a primitive version of the art created by our contemporaries. So it should not be astonishing to me that a text written thousands of years ago possesses the same qualities or refinement of awarded pieces that only now cracked their fifty years of age mark.
Putting the story itself a little aside, it's precisely this refinement, this brilliance in the construction of the narrative that impressed me so much. The pace, the development of the action and disentanglement of this intricate plot was written so masterfully that it requires little investigation in discovering the reasons why it became so influential to the subsequent generations. Now, I'm not knowledgeable enough to affirm that himself wasn't influenced by other works that preceded him, so I'm not claiming unprecedented originality to his name here, but merely(!) talent in using the most appropriate techniques to write so many wondrous predicates into this marvelous play. The ability with which he created, sustained and solved the various mysteries that surround this classical tragedy is very remarkable, as well as a striking mixture of pity and horror that the themes developed here successfully imposes on the reader.
Themes such as fate, free will, interference in human life by the Gods (for some that hasn't changed much, has it?) and its inflexible exploration of human nature and suffering are skillfully written in the form of intense dialogues and shocking revelations that could even prove too disturbing had not been accurate treatment, much like the reader likely pities Phedre's actions instead of automatically blaming her for her fate. The ever so mesmerizing battle between destiny and logical consequences also plays a big role here: does fate completely control Oedipus's actions - is it all predetermined? -, or is he simply a victim of his own doings, even if unknowingly?
(also known as Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus) tells the story of Oedipus, a man that's respected and loved in Thebas, where he is King after solving the riddle of the Sphinx and marrying Jocasta, the widow of the previous king. After a plague threatens his kingdom, he is begged by a chorus of Thebans for help and Oedipus sends for an oracle in order to find some guidance. As it turns out, Tiresias, the blind prophet, believes the King is the only one to blame for his malady. At first outraged and, because of it, incensed into proving his innocence, he starts connecting the clues that he receives from various bits of information gathered by different sources. Completely horrified and ruined by everything he found out, Oedipus blinds himself (ironically at the precise moment when he sees the whole truth) so he wouldn't ever again need to see his own feelings of shame and humiliation mirrored in the faces of the others.
I've read some criticism stating that some of the drama in the play is a bit over the top, and while I wouldn't agree and, more importantly, couldn't possibly begin to imagine myself in the same situation, I guess it was in vogue at the time that the heroes would suffer so much when they'd find their worlds turned upside down that they would impose on themselves severe sentences such as mutilations or death. Part of their heroism is exactly accepting to endure serious consequences, not once pleading blamelessness. Even later, in Shakespeare, we were still to find six or seven characters dying just like that, entire families decimated because of the belief that there could be no way out once the universe had programmed their fates.
Film adaptation: as influential as this story was everywhere, of course it wouldn鈥檛 lack adaptations in film. When I found out there was one (1967), directed by Pasolini, I instantly picked it to watch as I imagined that controversial material filmed by controversial director could only result in very interesting movie - to say the least! Much to my surprise, the ick factor was greatly downplayed and this time the Italian director focused more on the emotional aspects of his narrative than on the sexual ones. His rendition was very faithful to the story, although the linear narrative lacked the sophistication employed by Sophocles that chose to slowly reveal details of the plot by making use of different characters referring to past events. The power of the prophecy and the influence in human lives by the Gods were also not as active as in the original story. The intro Pasolini used though was very interesting: it begins in modern days where a father is very jealous of his son's connection with his mother and decides to get rid of him, as if he was anticipating an Oedipus complex situation; after that, time goes back to the ancient days.
Rating: I can't wait to read more from and if my anticipation for the remaining plays in this trilogy ( and ) means anything, is that it's a great testament of 's qualities and how highly I enjoyed this short but intense reading experience: 5 stars.
August 3, 2023
鈥淗ow dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be. When there鈥檚 no help in truth.鈥�
The Oedipus complex gives rise to the theory that children can possess a desire for a parent of the opposite sex while seeing the parent of the same sex as a rival, and of course its origin is to be found in Greek mythology where all great tragedies come.
Prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. The natural parents of the infant Oedipus, Laius, king of Thebes and Jocasta give the child to a shepherd to leave at the side of the mountain. Taking pity on the baby the shepherd instead gives the young Oedipus to the childless King Polybus of Corinth and his wife.
Having consulted the Oracle, years later, Oedipus learns of the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. To break the curse and avoid such tragedy Oedipus flees his home for fear of killing his adopted father Polybus. However, upon entering Thebes he clashes with a man driving a chariot which results in the death of his natural father, thereby fulfilling the first part of the doomed prophecy.
Unknowingly he then solves the riddle and enters Thebes to marry the recently widowed Jocasta, fulfilling the final part of the prophecy he had desperately tried to avoid.
Tragic, intense and dramatic, and the source of much debate about whether we really do possess free will or is our future predetermined and predestined in some way?
A familiar story. A nice opportunity to explore the ancient myths that have provided some wonderful entertainment over the years.
鈥淎las, alas, what misery to be wise When wisdom profits nothing!鈥�
The Oedipus complex gives rise to the theory that children can possess a desire for a parent of the opposite sex while seeing the parent of the same sex as a rival, and of course its origin is to be found in Greek mythology where all great tragedies come.
Prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. The natural parents of the infant Oedipus, Laius, king of Thebes and Jocasta give the child to a shepherd to leave at the side of the mountain. Taking pity on the baby the shepherd instead gives the young Oedipus to the childless King Polybus of Corinth and his wife.
Having consulted the Oracle, years later, Oedipus learns of the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. To break the curse and avoid such tragedy Oedipus flees his home for fear of killing his adopted father Polybus. However, upon entering Thebes he clashes with a man driving a chariot which results in the death of his natural father, thereby fulfilling the first part of the doomed prophecy.
Unknowingly he then solves the riddle and enters Thebes to marry the recently widowed Jocasta, fulfilling the final part of the prophecy he had desperately tried to avoid.
Tragic, intense and dramatic, and the source of much debate about whether we really do possess free will or is our future predetermined and predestined in some way?
A familiar story. A nice opportunity to explore the ancient myths that have provided some wonderful entertainment over the years.
鈥淎las, alas, what misery to be wise When wisdom profits nothing!鈥�
February 25, 2018
nothin like a forced reread in order to write a terrible paper
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classic oedipus!!! always going and getting himself into life-ruining, city-destroying shenanigans :')
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classic oedipus!!! always going and getting himself into life-ruining, city-destroying shenanigans :')
June 5, 2016
Sometimes life's a real bitch.
Fate is unavoidable in ancient Greek Tragedy. Trying to avoid it will only lead to it, and doing nothing will lead you there too. So if a God tells you that you will die at the hands of your son, and that he will then go on to steal your wife, you鈥檇 best do nothing because it鈥檚 going to happen anyway. Any preventative action you take will only lead to the same ending. So, you鈥檙e pretty much screwed. You might as well lie down and accept it. The God's are mean.
But, nope, if you鈥檙e like the King of Thebes you鈥檒l leave your infant son for dead instead.
Poor Oedipus. He really didn鈥檛 have much chance in life. He could do nothing to intervene with his own destiny, mainly because his tragic flaw is his lack of awareness about his true origins. He hears a rumour of the prophecy told to his farther, so he endeavours to stay away from him. But, in doing so he is pushed ever closer to his real farther. That鈥檚 the problem with being abandoned at birth; you just don鈥檛 know who is who in the world! There鈥檚 some irony in this somewhere.
Indeed, it suggests that no free will exists at all because any exertions of the supposed free will lead to the predetermined fate. So every action has been accounted for already. The intended audience may have been aware of these powers but Oedipus and his farther were hapless in their wake. They had to both learn the hard way. Oedipus had to recognise it, and in the process he shattered his life: it made him tear out his very eyes. Now that鈥檚 real grief. There鈥檚 no wonder Aristotle made this his model for the perfect play because this is masterful.
Aristotle鈥檚 theory can be used to assist the reader in understanding how the plot contributes to the tragedy. I couldn鈥檛 have read tragedy without it. The tragedy is created, in part, by the complexity of its plot which leads towards the catharsis. According to Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics the complexity of the plot is established through reversal, recognition and suffering. A simple plot will only establish one of these; therefore, it will have a limited catharsis. The reversal (peritpeteia) is the change of a state of affairs to its opposite, such as the reversal of Oedipus鈥� identity. The recognition (anaghorsis) is achieved through the acquiring of knowledge, like the knowledge Oedipus gains of his birth. Aristotle argues that an effective plot has its anaghorisis bound up with the peritpeteia. This is because it, 鈥渃arries with it pity or fear鈥� such as these following lines:
"O god-
All come true, all busting to light!
O light- now let me look my last on you!
I stand revealed at last-鈥� (Lines 1305-9)
I hope I didn鈥檛 lose anyone or bore them to death with my summary of Poetics. The structure is the key; it is everything in delivering the plot. If, in the cathartic moment, the action can evoke suffering through a combination of a reversal of circumstances during a brutally stark recognition, then the ultimate delivery of pity and fear will be achieved. Such is the case with Oedipus. Oedipus鈥檚 hamartia, his tragic flaw at the core of his being, is his ignorance, and when the veil is lifted he realises the tragedy of the situation; he realises all too late that fate is unshakable and unconquerable.
He has unknowingly committed incest with his mother and murdered his farther, so, like I said, life is a real bitch.
Fate is unavoidable in ancient Greek Tragedy. Trying to avoid it will only lead to it, and doing nothing will lead you there too. So if a God tells you that you will die at the hands of your son, and that he will then go on to steal your wife, you鈥檇 best do nothing because it鈥檚 going to happen anyway. Any preventative action you take will only lead to the same ending. So, you鈥檙e pretty much screwed. You might as well lie down and accept it. The God's are mean.
But, nope, if you鈥檙e like the King of Thebes you鈥檒l leave your infant son for dead instead.
Poor Oedipus. He really didn鈥檛 have much chance in life. He could do nothing to intervene with his own destiny, mainly because his tragic flaw is his lack of awareness about his true origins. He hears a rumour of the prophecy told to his farther, so he endeavours to stay away from him. But, in doing so he is pushed ever closer to his real farther. That鈥檚 the problem with being abandoned at birth; you just don鈥檛 know who is who in the world! There鈥檚 some irony in this somewhere.
Indeed, it suggests that no free will exists at all because any exertions of the supposed free will lead to the predetermined fate. So every action has been accounted for already. The intended audience may have been aware of these powers but Oedipus and his farther were hapless in their wake. They had to both learn the hard way. Oedipus had to recognise it, and in the process he shattered his life: it made him tear out his very eyes. Now that鈥檚 real grief. There鈥檚 no wonder Aristotle made this his model for the perfect play because this is masterful.
Aristotle鈥檚 theory can be used to assist the reader in understanding how the plot contributes to the tragedy. I couldn鈥檛 have read tragedy without it. The tragedy is created, in part, by the complexity of its plot which leads towards the catharsis. According to Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics the complexity of the plot is established through reversal, recognition and suffering. A simple plot will only establish one of these; therefore, it will have a limited catharsis. The reversal (peritpeteia) is the change of a state of affairs to its opposite, such as the reversal of Oedipus鈥� identity. The recognition (anaghorsis) is achieved through the acquiring of knowledge, like the knowledge Oedipus gains of his birth. Aristotle argues that an effective plot has its anaghorisis bound up with the peritpeteia. This is because it, 鈥渃arries with it pity or fear鈥� such as these following lines:
"O god-
All come true, all busting to light!
O light- now let me look my last on you!
I stand revealed at last-鈥� (Lines 1305-9)
I hope I didn鈥檛 lose anyone or bore them to death with my summary of Poetics. The structure is the key; it is everything in delivering the plot. If, in the cathartic moment, the action can evoke suffering through a combination of a reversal of circumstances during a brutally stark recognition, then the ultimate delivery of pity and fear will be achieved. Such is the case with Oedipus. Oedipus鈥檚 hamartia, his tragic flaw at the core of his being, is his ignorance, and when the veil is lifted he realises the tragedy of the situation; he realises all too late that fate is unshakable and unconquerable.
He has unknowingly committed incest with his mother and murdered his farther, so, like I said, life is a real bitch.
April 20, 2025
Pedazo de historia. Recomendados para comenzar con las tragedias griegas.
June 26, 2020
Book Review
4 out of 5 stars to , the first of "The Theban Plays," written by around 430 BC. If you are unfamiliar with Greek tragedies, the thing you need to know most is that the authors often played with the concept of fate: not just that some things are meant to be or to come back and haunt you, but that there is always more going on than you realize at the time. This is one of the plays you should absolutely read. Although borderline spoiler, it's important to know 1 fact about the play, as it plays into the mind of so many psychologists today when they speak about an Oedipal Complex, as in all young boys (kids?) fall in love with their mothers at some point. Essentially, Oedipus kills the King and marries the King's wife. Little does he know.... that was his father and she is his mother. Whaaaaattttt? How does that happen? Seriously... well, the plot is intricate, the history is insane... and it's only the first of three in this trilogy. Find a translation and read it. It's a little convoluted, and the language may be a bit metaphorical in too many places, but the characters and the plot is amazing!
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on 欧宝娱乐, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at , where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
4 out of 5 stars to , the first of "The Theban Plays," written by around 430 BC. If you are unfamiliar with Greek tragedies, the thing you need to know most is that the authors often played with the concept of fate: not just that some things are meant to be or to come back and haunt you, but that there is always more going on than you realize at the time. This is one of the plays you should absolutely read. Although borderline spoiler, it's important to know 1 fact about the play, as it plays into the mind of so many psychologists today when they speak about an Oedipal Complex, as in all young boys (kids?) fall in love with their mothers at some point. Essentially, Oedipus kills the King and marries the King's wife. Little does he know.... that was his father and she is his mother. Whaaaaattttt? How does that happen? Seriously... well, the plot is intricate, the history is insane... and it's only the first of three in this trilogy. Find a translation and read it. It's a little convoluted, and the language may be a bit metaphorical in too many places, but the characters and the plot is amazing!
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on 欧宝娱乐, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at , where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
November 21, 2015
THE EYE THAT DIES
I have not read Sophocles鈥� text recently, but listened to
exceptional audio edition. Powerfully acted out, with an eerie chorus and dramatic music, it has been a superb experience.
I have come back to this play now in a roundabout way. As part of a Seminar on Aesthetics, The Eye that Thinks, imparted in the Prado Museum, we were prompted by our Professor to read Oedipus in a Hegelian framework. We had been discussing the contributions of Hegel to Aesthetics, and he wanted us to visit the play and think of the role of Sphinx and the significance of Thebes.
In Hegel鈥檚 aesthetic system he identified Greek sculptures as the apex of what art could achieve in its quest of perfect and supreme beauty. Earlier architecture and art were still immature attempts. For example, the large Egyptian monuments were undertakings in which matter still prevailed over Geist. When Hegel saw some Kouroi in Munich (now in the Glyptotech), specimens of very early Greek art, he was struck by the significance of the step in this walking man.
In Egyptian representations of humans, legs are seen in profile. They depicted stability, while the Greek marble in Munich man was striding forward. The Kouros, although still using Egyptian conventions presented something very new. It embodied gesture. And Hegel thought that art should strive to represent movement.
The conceptual step of the Kouros, an awakening out of immobility, separated the worlds of the two Thebes: the one in Boetia in ancient Greece from the one up the Nile in ancient Egypt. In Greece Geist was finally on the move.
If Hegel favoured Greek sculpture, he found that Greek drama could offer an additional dimension to sculpted beauty as the unfolding of time could be represented as well. For him Greek tragedy had invoked the greatest aesthetic power.
Hegel had also understood the Egyptian Sphinx as the first instance of the representation of human emerging out, liberating himself, from his animal nature. In this reading of Oedipus Rex as I have tried to keep on some sort of Hegelian glasses (and forget about the pervasive Freudian interpretation), I have seen the solution of Oedipus to the riddle of the Sphinx, and the consequent dissolution of the curse on Thebes and the destruction of the monster, as the emergence of humanity over its previous servitudes and imprisonment.
And yet, this conquered freedom also brought the possibility of unwilled intention or of the unintended will and the impossibility of unlearning what one already knows.
Trapped in this situation Oedipus attempt to escape his knowledge by doing away with his eyes, could only bring death.
As the chorus chants: it is the only liberation.
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July 15, 2022
鬲乇丕趩賷丿賷丕 賲賲鬲毓丞 賱爻賵賮賵賰賱賷爻.. 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 丕賱賳氐賵氐 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 丕賱賲卮賴賵乇丞 亘乇睾賲 賲乇賵乇 丕賱夭賲賳
賷馗賳 兀賵丿賷亘 丕賳賴 賴乇亘 賲賳 兀賯丿丕乇賴 賱賰賳賴 賮賷 賰賱 禺胤賵丞 賷禺胤賵賴丕 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賲氐賷乇賴 丕賱賲賰鬲賵亘
賵鬲鬲丨賯賯 丕賱賳亘賵亍丞 丕賱鬲毓爻丞... 賷毓乇囟 爻賵賮賵賰賱賷爻 丨鬲賲賷丞 賲兀爻丕丞 兀賵丿賷亘 賵賱丕 噩丿賵賶 丕賱賴乇亘 賲賳賴丕
賵賷乇爻賲 氐賵乇丞 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳 丕賱丨丕卅乇 亘賷賳 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賲賳 廿丿乇丕賰賴丕 賵賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴丕
賷馗賳 兀賵丿賷亘 丕賳賴 賴乇亘 賲賳 兀賯丿丕乇賴 賱賰賳賴 賮賷 賰賱 禺胤賵丞 賷禺胤賵賴丕 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賲氐賷乇賴 丕賱賲賰鬲賵亘
賵鬲鬲丨賯賯 丕賱賳亘賵亍丞 丕賱鬲毓爻丞... 賷毓乇囟 爻賵賮賵賰賱賷爻 丨鬲賲賷丞 賲兀爻丕丞 兀賵丿賷亘 賵賱丕 噩丿賵賶 丕賱賴乇亘 賲賳賴丕
賵賷乇爻賲 氐賵乇丞 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳 丕賱丨丕卅乇 亘賷賳 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賲賳 廿丿乇丕賰賴丕 賵賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴丕
June 27, 2012
Oedipus of Sophocles is a great work of art written by a great poet,this play symbolizes for the human misery and despair...
the torments of the human soul,the innocence and guilt,Wisdom Out of Suffering and Fate that determines many things no matter how we struggle to change it....
Oedipus hears about his dreadful fate from the Delphic oracle and flees from Corinth. But instead of fleeing from his fate he runs into it...
Oedipus a passionate heart,who ask questions and take risks,has all the qualities of a great man...he has gone through sudden shifts on the course of his life and lets every situation control him....
Despite his flaws, Oedipus is a good person who seeks the truth no matter how devastating. and who accept the responsibility for his actions.....
At the end of the play, Oedipus accepts his fate as well as the punishment given to him ....
He had promised to exile the one who is responsible for the plague , and he fulfills his promise even if he himself is the one to be exiled. By mercilessly punishing himself, he becomes a great hero...
who has a Respect for Justice ....
Jocasta, on the other hand, appears as a person who would rather control the situation. She reveals that she is more mature than Oedipus and even reveals a maternal side towards him. This is evident in the way she tries to stop Oedipus from investigating further into the mystery of his birth. At this point, she has realized the possibility that Oedipus may be her son. She would rather let the dreadful fact remain a mystery then let it ruin their lives
The entwined sheets with which she hangs herself symbolize the double life she has led........
Oedipus tragic position and his trial to elude the prophecies and to challenge his Fate, that was inevitable as he at last fails, but just having the courage to attempt , makes him a true hero.
This play raises a question,when someone is trying to avoid doing things. Does he have free will or the ability to choose his own path or is everything in life predetermined?
the torments of the human soul,the innocence and guilt,Wisdom Out of Suffering and Fate that determines many things no matter how we struggle to change it....
Oedipus hears about his dreadful fate from the Delphic oracle and flees from Corinth. But instead of fleeing from his fate he runs into it...
Oedipus a passionate heart,who ask questions and take risks,has all the qualities of a great man...he has gone through sudden shifts on the course of his life and lets every situation control him....
Despite his flaws, Oedipus is a good person who seeks the truth no matter how devastating. and who accept the responsibility for his actions.....
At the end of the play, Oedipus accepts his fate as well as the punishment given to him ....
He had promised to exile the one who is responsible for the plague , and he fulfills his promise even if he himself is the one to be exiled. By mercilessly punishing himself, he becomes a great hero...
who has a Respect for Justice ....
Jocasta, on the other hand, appears as a person who would rather control the situation. She reveals that she is more mature than Oedipus and even reveals a maternal side towards him. This is evident in the way she tries to stop Oedipus from investigating further into the mystery of his birth. At this point, she has realized the possibility that Oedipus may be her son. She would rather let the dreadful fact remain a mystery then let it ruin their lives
The entwined sheets with which she hangs herself symbolize the double life she has led........
Oedipus tragic position and his trial to elude the prophecies and to challenge his Fate, that was inevitable as he at last fails, but just having the courage to attempt , makes him a true hero.
This play raises a question,when someone is trying to avoid doing things. Does he have free will or the ability to choose his own path or is everything in life predetermined?
July 6, 2011
I'd say "spoiler alert" but it seems ridiculous . . .
I've taught this play for years, and I think this year I finally decided what makes this play great. My students never feel sympathy for Macbeth, but they do for Oedipus, and that always used to bother me. They whine in their teenage attitudinal voices, "But he didn't know that was his father." I always respond, "So it's ok to KILL PEOPLE if they're not your father?!"
In identifying with Oedipus, they forget the nature of the atrocities he committed, and that is where the greatness of this play lies - in creating a character who does horrible things, but who never seems like a monster to his audience: to them, he's just a human with human failings. He is essentially a good man, one who tries to help people, who makes tragic mistakes. In this sense my students mirror the feelings of the people of Thebes: the chorus defends Oedipus to the end, unable to believe evil of this great man who saved them once and is trying to save them again. When Oedipus is revealed as not being the son of Polybus and possibly the son of slaves, the chorus believes then that he must be the child of a god, for who else could spawn such a great man?
But Oedipus' humanity lies in his course of action which spirals out of his control - and that, I think, is the element in Oedipus with which my students identify. Oedipus becomes a victim of the unforseen consequences of his own actions. These actions, of course, are fueled by his own pride - arrogance to think he can avoid Apollo's prophecy, and pride turned to anger in being pushed off the road when he feels the other driver should be giving way to his own great self (Ancient Greek road rage!). He may have been doomed since before birth by Apollo's curse on his family, but Oedipus creates his own problems. In believing he can avoid Apollo's prophecy, he shows us that he thinks he has outsmarted the gods, that he is greater than the gods. This, then, is the ultimate hubris and his ultimate undoing.
I've taught this play for years, and I think this year I finally decided what makes this play great. My students never feel sympathy for Macbeth, but they do for Oedipus, and that always used to bother me. They whine in their teenage attitudinal voices, "But he didn't know that was his father." I always respond, "So it's ok to KILL PEOPLE if they're not your father?!"
In identifying with Oedipus, they forget the nature of the atrocities he committed, and that is where the greatness of this play lies - in creating a character who does horrible things, but who never seems like a monster to his audience: to them, he's just a human with human failings. He is essentially a good man, one who tries to help people, who makes tragic mistakes. In this sense my students mirror the feelings of the people of Thebes: the chorus defends Oedipus to the end, unable to believe evil of this great man who saved them once and is trying to save them again. When Oedipus is revealed as not being the son of Polybus and possibly the son of slaves, the chorus believes then that he must be the child of a god, for who else could spawn such a great man?
But Oedipus' humanity lies in his course of action which spirals out of his control - and that, I think, is the element in Oedipus with which my students identify. Oedipus becomes a victim of the unforseen consequences of his own actions. These actions, of course, are fueled by his own pride - arrogance to think he can avoid Apollo's prophecy, and pride turned to anger in being pushed off the road when he feels the other driver should be giving way to his own great self (Ancient Greek road rage!). He may have been doomed since before birth by Apollo's curse on his family, but Oedipus creates his own problems. In believing he can avoid Apollo's prophecy, he shows us that he thinks he has outsmarted the gods, that he is greater than the gods. This, then, is the ultimate hubris and his ultimate undoing.
July 5, 2017
鈥淔ear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.鈥�
January 29, 2020
螔蟻蔚 蟿慰谓 螣喂未委蟺慰未伪 蟿慰谓 韦蠀蟻伪纬谓喂蟽渭苇谓慰... 螘委蠂蔚 蟺慰位蠉 蠄蠅渭委 蟿蔚位喂魏维...
螤苇蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺位维魏伪 蟿蠋蟻伪, 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 魏蔚委渭蔚谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 位蔚蟼 蠈蟿喂 伪尉委味蔚喂 谓伪 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂蟼 蟺蔚蟻萎蠁伪谓慰蟼, 苇蟽蟿蠅 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蟿畏谓 蟿蠉蠂畏 谓伪 味蔚喂蟼 蟽蟿慰谓 委未喂慰 蠂蠋蟻慰 蟺慰蠀 苇味畏蟽伪谓 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿慰委 慰喂 渭蔚纬维位慰喂 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬慰委, 蟿蠈蟽蔚蟼 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 蟺蟻喂谓.
螆谓伪 苇蟻纬慰 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 尉蔚蟺蔚蟻伪蟽蟿蔚委 蠈蟽蔚蟼 蠂喂位喂蔚蟿委蔚蟼 魏喂 伪谓 蟺蔚蟻维蟽慰蠀谓.
螤苇蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺位维魏伪 蟿蠋蟻伪, 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 魏蔚委渭蔚谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 位蔚蟼 蠈蟿喂 伪尉委味蔚喂 谓伪 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂蟼 蟺蔚蟻萎蠁伪谓慰蟼, 苇蟽蟿蠅 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蟿畏谓 蟿蠉蠂畏 谓伪 味蔚喂蟼 蟽蟿慰谓 委未喂慰 蠂蠋蟻慰 蟺慰蠀 苇味畏蟽伪谓 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿慰委 慰喂 渭蔚纬维位慰喂 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬慰委, 蟿蠈蟽蔚蟼 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 蟺蟻喂谓.
螆谓伪 苇蟻纬慰 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 尉蔚蟺蔚蟻伪蟽蟿蔚委 蠈蟽蔚蟼 蠂喂位喂蔚蟿委蔚蟼 魏喂 伪谓 蟺蔚蟻维蟽慰蠀谓.
November 17, 2019
鈥淚 want a girl, just like the girl, that married dear old Dad鈥濃€擮edipus
But, why accept a copy when you can get the real thing?!
I read this because 1) recently I had read (out of order) Antigone and thought I might reread the whole trilogy; 2) I plan to see a local production of the play and 3) I had some vague notion that the play, about a king, might throw some literary light on our current American King and kingly conduct. I listened to it, though I had to start over 3-4 times because the reader was literally the worst reader of a text I have ever encountered; I would have preferred hearing Siri read the text to this play. I thought he was deliberately doing a flat, comic interpretation at times. He made the already formal language especially stilted and dry. I already preferred Antigone, but this experience made me like the play a little less. But hey, it鈥檚 still a classical tragedy that has been read for centuries and a good story.
Oedipus is the first in the trilogy, also known as Oedipus Tyrannus. As you maybe know from the fact that even if you haven鈥檛 read the play, Freud鈥檚 鈥淥edipus complex鈥� comes from this play: O became king of Thebes after fulfilling a prophecy made by blind Teresias that he would kill his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta (though he didn鈥檛 really know she was his mother, to his credit).
[Let鈥檚 pause here and consider this incest question with respect to the presidency; Trump said even if he murdered someone that his base would still vote for him; if he had married his, let鈥檚 say, daughter, Ivanka (and you鈥檝e heard what he said about dating her, so this is not so far-fetched), would his base have still voted for him? Consider.]
[Another kingly reflection: Oedipus means 鈥渟wollen feet,鈥� as his feet had been tightly bound by Laius. Trump is known for having tiny appendages; write a 3-5 page paper reflecting on the implications of appendage size regarding kingly pride.]
So one serious theme the play takes up is the relationship of the individual to the state (as happens in Antigone, too, with King Creon). Each king makes a decision that his subjects question or disobey; each king misconstrues disagreement as rebellion. While Creon saw his mistake, Oedipus refuses to listen to anyone who disagrees with him. Question: Is listening a useful property in a leader?
The blind prophet Tiresias 鈥渟ees鈥� more than Oedipus, who cannot 鈥渟ee鈥� the truth because his excessive pride has made him 鈥渂lind.鈥� I leave it to you whether this insight into political leadership from roughly two dozen centuries ago has trickled down to any political leaders we know, but 鈥減ride鈥� is Oedipus鈥檚 tragic flaw (see Aristotle), which 鈥済oeth before his fall.鈥� Discuss.
This play really builds up a lot of steam by its (tragic) end. And it's probably the greatest classical tragedy, by reputation, so in spite of the fact that I connected a bit better to Antigone (because I like that character in the play) better, I still this is a play well-worth reading about politics and human nature.
But, why accept a copy when you can get the real thing?!
I read this because 1) recently I had read (out of order) Antigone and thought I might reread the whole trilogy; 2) I plan to see a local production of the play and 3) I had some vague notion that the play, about a king, might throw some literary light on our current American King and kingly conduct. I listened to it, though I had to start over 3-4 times because the reader was literally the worst reader of a text I have ever encountered; I would have preferred hearing Siri read the text to this play. I thought he was deliberately doing a flat, comic interpretation at times. He made the already formal language especially stilted and dry. I already preferred Antigone, but this experience made me like the play a little less. But hey, it鈥檚 still a classical tragedy that has been read for centuries and a good story.
Oedipus is the first in the trilogy, also known as Oedipus Tyrannus. As you maybe know from the fact that even if you haven鈥檛 read the play, Freud鈥檚 鈥淥edipus complex鈥� comes from this play: O became king of Thebes after fulfilling a prophecy made by blind Teresias that he would kill his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta (though he didn鈥檛 really know she was his mother, to his credit).
[Let鈥檚 pause here and consider this incest question with respect to the presidency; Trump said even if he murdered someone that his base would still vote for him; if he had married his, let鈥檚 say, daughter, Ivanka (and you鈥檝e heard what he said about dating her, so this is not so far-fetched), would his base have still voted for him? Consider.]
[Another kingly reflection: Oedipus means 鈥渟wollen feet,鈥� as his feet had been tightly bound by Laius. Trump is known for having tiny appendages; write a 3-5 page paper reflecting on the implications of appendage size regarding kingly pride.]
So one serious theme the play takes up is the relationship of the individual to the state (as happens in Antigone, too, with King Creon). Each king makes a decision that his subjects question or disobey; each king misconstrues disagreement as rebellion. While Creon saw his mistake, Oedipus refuses to listen to anyone who disagrees with him. Question: Is listening a useful property in a leader?
The blind prophet Tiresias 鈥渟ees鈥� more than Oedipus, who cannot 鈥渟ee鈥� the truth because his excessive pride has made him 鈥渂lind.鈥� I leave it to you whether this insight into political leadership from roughly two dozen centuries ago has trickled down to any political leaders we know, but 鈥減ride鈥� is Oedipus鈥檚 tragic flaw (see Aristotle), which 鈥済oeth before his fall.鈥� Discuss.
This play really builds up a lot of steam by its (tragic) end. And it's probably the greatest classical tragedy, by reputation, so in spite of the fact that I connected a bit better to Antigone (because I like that character in the play) better, I still this is a play well-worth reading about politics and human nature.
March 31, 2021
鈥淢ock me for that, go on, and you鈥檒l reveal my greatness.鈥�
I was, quite frankly blown away by the entire story of the three Theban Plays. And by the amazing story that it narrates. The first one, Oedipus Rex, or simply as Penguin translates it: Oedipus the King is hors d鈥檕euvre to the extreme vigor of the three consecutive plays, not as much great as the latter ones, probably for being so short. It finishes almost as soon as it begins to intrigue, which can prove a bit infuriating, undoubtedly.
鈥淗ow could kingship
please me more than influence, power
without a qualm? I鈥檓 not that deluded yet,
to reach for anything but privilege outright,
profit free and clear.
Now all men sing my praises, all salute me,
now all who request your favors curry mine.
I am their best hope: success rests in me.
Why give up that, I ask you, and borrow trouble?
A man of sense, someone who sees things clearly
would never resort to treason.鈥�
The exceptional aspect is that, we know now that the myths of Oedipus were even more popular, plausibly from a time much before Sophocles started writing the play. And it never fails in its tragedy even after everyone can foresee where and how the tale is going to end. And some striking relevance to the world we live in too, which we may call modern but in truth is just as hypocritically orthodox as it was, quite apparently, in 425 BCE. Most evident is undoubtedly the theme of 鈥榟ubris鈥�, but that鈥檚 not salient to this play alone, however.
鈥淎nything, afraid as I am-ask, I鈥檒l answer, all I can.鈥�
I was, quite frankly blown away by the entire story of the three Theban Plays. And by the amazing story that it narrates. The first one, Oedipus Rex, or simply as Penguin translates it: Oedipus the King is hors d鈥檕euvre to the extreme vigor of the three consecutive plays, not as much great as the latter ones, probably for being so short. It finishes almost as soon as it begins to intrigue, which can prove a bit infuriating, undoubtedly.
鈥淗ow could kingship
please me more than influence, power
without a qualm? I鈥檓 not that deluded yet,
to reach for anything but privilege outright,
profit free and clear.
Now all men sing my praises, all salute me,
now all who request your favors curry mine.
I am their best hope: success rests in me.
Why give up that, I ask you, and borrow trouble?
A man of sense, someone who sees things clearly
would never resort to treason.鈥�
The exceptional aspect is that, we know now that the myths of Oedipus were even more popular, plausibly from a time much before Sophocles started writing the play. And it never fails in its tragedy even after everyone can foresee where and how the tale is going to end. And some striking relevance to the world we live in too, which we may call modern but in truth is just as hypocritically orthodox as it was, quite apparently, in 425 BCE. Most evident is undoubtedly the theme of 鈥榟ubris鈥�, but that鈥檚 not salient to this play alone, however.
鈥淎nything, afraid as I am-ask, I鈥檒l answer, all I can.鈥�
August 12, 2022
鈥淭he pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.鈥�
The story of Oedipus, the king who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother, is one of the best-known Greek myths, thanks to Freud. I first read the play long ago as an undergraduate. In this rereading, I felt awed by Sophocles's skill as a playwright. The structure, pacing, and dialogue were brilliant, and considering that he was one of drama's earliest practitioners, the play is even more impressive.
I read and listened to a superb production on audible. I would love to see it performed. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the classics or drama.
The story of Oedipus, the king who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother, is one of the best-known Greek myths, thanks to Freud. I first read the play long ago as an undergraduate. In this rereading, I felt awed by Sophocles's skill as a playwright. The structure, pacing, and dialogue were brilliant, and considering that he was one of drama's earliest practitioners, the play is even more impressive.
I read and listened to a superb production on audible. I would love to see it performed. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the classics or drama.
February 9, 2023
if you see me building a shrine for Sophocles, mind your business, i'm too in love with this man
February 14, 2022
DUDE GOES BLIND BANGS MOM LOL
October 17, 2021
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丿乇 讴賱 賳賲丕蹖卮賳丕賲赖 丕賵賱 亘賳馗乇賲 亘賴鬲乇 亘賵丿. 丿賵賲蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 爻乇蹖毓 賵 讴賱蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賮鬲 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賲 夭蹖丕丿 亘丕賴丕卮 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘诏蹖乇賲
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丿乇 讴賱 賳賲丕蹖卮賳丕賲赖 丕賵賱 亘賳馗乇賲 亘賴鬲乇 亘賵丿. 丿賵賲蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 爻乇蹖毓 賵 讴賱蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賮鬲 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賲 夭蹖丕丿 亘丕賴丕卮 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘诏蹖乇賲
October 14, 2019
this fucked me right up.
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March 30, 2025Long time no Sophocles! A layer cake of decades that ain't sweet, to be specific, but it's always nice to revisit the ancient Greeks who knew a thing or two about hubris (still pervasive on the Potomac).
A tragedy even the fussy Aristotle could get behind, Oedipus the King has some inadvertent humor to the modern, more jaded eye, thanks to the bristling dramatic irony throughout the play. We know what poor Oedipus Paging Doctor Scholl does not. No matter how much he tries to outwit the powers-that-be (read: Oracle at Delphi, a.k.a. "Radio Free Apollo"), he just can't. It would help if he knew who his real Mom and Dad are, but he doesn't, even though he knows Mom intimately (all together now: Ewww).
Oh, yeah. The humor. I love the Tiresias vs. Oedipus verbal battle early on, where Oedipus accuses the blind seer (oxymoron alert!) first of holding back knowledge (yes), second of murdering the former king, Laius (no), and finally of conspiring with Creon to overthrow Oedipus' rule (no). Given the fact that we know and T. knows but O. doesn't know, the whole exchange is just full of bon mots, especially when the old and tired T. gets sick of the whole conversation. You go, Old Man!
In the end, a bloody mess, and reason to purge jewelry boxes of brooches. But still, a comfort that it's there, this play, setting the bar for eons of playwrights to come. Overall, the Greek Chorus sings shock and awe (and hidden pleasure -- better him than us)!
A tragedy even the fussy Aristotle could get behind, Oedipus the King has some inadvertent humor to the modern, more jaded eye, thanks to the bristling dramatic irony throughout the play. We know what poor Oedipus Paging Doctor Scholl does not. No matter how much he tries to outwit the powers-that-be (read: Oracle at Delphi, a.k.a. "Radio Free Apollo"), he just can't. It would help if he knew who his real Mom and Dad are, but he doesn't, even though he knows Mom intimately (all together now: Ewww).
Oh, yeah. The humor. I love the Tiresias vs. Oedipus verbal battle early on, where Oedipus accuses the blind seer (oxymoron alert!) first of holding back knowledge (yes), second of murdering the former king, Laius (no), and finally of conspiring with Creon to overthrow Oedipus' rule (no). Given the fact that we know and T. knows but O. doesn't know, the whole exchange is just full of bon mots, especially when the old and tired T. gets sick of the whole conversation. You go, Old Man!
In the end, a bloody mess, and reason to purge jewelry boxes of brooches. But still, a comfort that it's there, this play, setting the bar for eons of playwrights to come. Overall, the Greek Chorus sings shock and awe (and hidden pleasure -- better him than us)!
March 9, 2019
韦喂 蠁慰尾蔚蟻蠈 谓伪 尉苇蟻蔚喂蟼 蟿畏谓 伪位萎胃蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 谓伪 蟽慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 伪谓蠋蠁蔚位畏.
February 16, 2023
Edipo Rey constituye una de las m谩s famosas y emblem谩ticas piezas de la tragedia griega. Concebida por S贸focles, el m谩s destacado de los dramaturgos que alguna vez habitasen Atenas, esta obra maestra debe su fama a lo implacable de su construcci贸n, el fervor de su fuerza dram谩tica y lo agudo de su iron铆a. Es adem谩s sumamente rica en estilismos y po茅tica en el desenvolvimiento de los coros haciendo de su lenguaje narrativo no s贸lo elevado y distintivo sino profundamente bello. Su concepto, adem谩s, tan malicioso como brutal es eficaz en reflejar algunas de las creencias m谩s caracter铆sticas de la 茅poca en cuestiones como las deidades, el destino y el honor. Edipo Rey no s贸lo re煤ne los elementos de la tragedia sino que se enriquece de una retorcida originalidad que en lo depravado de su concepto halla tambi茅n su cualidad de fascinante.
February 29, 2016
I'm being irreverent, but whenever I think of this work I cannot help recalling Mel Brooks in History of the World Part 1.
Apart from the legendary, and infamous, incest, this is an ancient tale of psychological terror and angst. Human nature does not change and the themes Sophocles explored are still relevant today, this is truly a timeless work.
Apart from the legendary, and infamous, incest, this is an ancient tale of psychological terror and angst. Human nature does not change and the themes Sophocles explored are still relevant today, this is truly a timeless work.
December 1, 2017
蹖讴 鬲乇丕跇丿蹖 亘賴 鬲賲丕賲 賲毓賳丕 賮賵賯鈥屫з勜关ж�! 賵丕賯毓丕賸 丌丿賲 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 趩蹖 亘诏賴 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 賳賲丕蹖卮賳丕賲赖鈥屫й� 讴賴 2500 爻丕賱 倬蹖卮 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 丕賳賯丿乇 丨乇賮賴鈥屫й� 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬矩必ж槽� 卮丿賴 賵 丕賳賯丿乇 丿蹖丕賱賵诏鈥屬囏ж� 賯賵蹖賴! 卮丿蹖丿丕賸 鬲賵氐蹖賴 賲蹖鈥屫促� 禺賵賳丿賳卮!
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