Oedipus Rex Quote: Relation To Today
Throughout time, certain ideas just never seem to go away, as they remain in society. So as time goes on, many of the same themes and ideas are used to tell a story. For this reason, it can be said that these certain themes and ideas are universal in literature. One of these is in the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Creon asks “Did he look like a man in his right mind?” In this quote, located on page 26 in Scene II of the play, Creon is asking the Choragos if Oedipus was sane when he charged Creon with the murder of King Laius. This idea of sanity is universal in literature, and in life. Therefore, this quote and the question of sanity both relate to today in respect to the O.J. Simpson case, the movie “Con Air,” and the case of the Unabomber. In the O.J. Simpson case, the question of sanity was brought up, as well as in Oedipus Rex, through this quote. In this case, Simpson was accused of the murder of his former wife and Ronald Goldman. One of the questions at the beginning of the case was that if Simpson did kill the two, wa
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