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Oedipus The King 4
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....es well when in context of Sophocles’ Theban Trilogy. “The unexamined life is not worth living,” proclaims Socrates. He could have meant many different things by this statement, and in relation to the play, Oedipus, the meaning is found to be even more complex.
Indeed, the situation of Oedipus, kin.... Part 2 of Paper
.... Yet, in terms of Oedipus Rex, this was meant in a vastly different way.
The unexamined life was one that was in the dark, unknown as to what fate lay beyond every turn and irony of living. Oedipus, up to the point in which he heard the comment in the tavern in Corinth, lived an unexamined life. To Socrates, he was an unfulfilled man, one who deserved to know more, one who was not complete. However, in a much less metaphysical sense, Oedipus’ life was complete, in that he had all that .... |
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