The Oedipal Conflict
Oedipus Rex is the story of a childhood dream gone terribly wrong. Sophocles was a great playwright who used human tragedy to the fullest. His Oedipus Rex, one of the Theban plays, was a demonstration of what can happen to anyone, whether of greatness or not. Every son has an infatuation with his mother and swears that they will marry her. The difference with the every normal person and Oedipus is, normal people aren’t sick enough to follow through with the infatuation to this extreme. This play is one about a very disturbed man who stresses from his discoveries of who he is and why he is. This part of the plays dramatic irony makes it very interesting as well as, in a way, disgusting. The fact of the passion for his mother/wife, Jocasta, is important because it helps with the explanation of Aristotle’s five points of tragedy. These three things are relevant throughout the play and have prime examples and are proven as well. The Oedipal conflict, as described in Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of Oedipus Rex, is a conflict which arises in every young boy, the love, or in some cases infatuation, with his mother. “It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse tow
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Approximate Word count = 951
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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