Oedipus is honestly one of the craziest things I've ever read. For something so old, it was really insane when you think about it. A man trying to avoid his fate for his entire to life, only to figure out that he's been following it the whole time. Honestly, it's like the biggest middle finger to Oedipus ever. It truly was a tragedy. Even though he was a cruel and rude guy when he was ruling, you can't help but feel at least a little bad for him. I feel like one of this biggest themes in this play was in fact fate. The idea that you can't avoid fate, and no matter what you do it'll find you and you'll be stuck with it. He didn't even know that he was part of this fate, so really, you can't even blame him that much for it. If anything, it's Jocasta's fault. She should've just left and gone somewhere completely different in the first place. Like, no where even near where she would think that her son would go. I feel like she'd at least try a little harder instead of just marrying some random guy that was brought in. Shouldn't the fact that he KILLED her old husband give it away. Anyways, it's all just the most crazy things ever. Jocasta kills herself, Oedipus stabs his eyes out for really no reason. Just to "try to see the truth" or something. It's a little too late to see the truth, buddy. Poor guy. I feel like this shows kind of the basic elements of what a tragedy is. It has all of the things that people think of when they think of tragedy. Death, a depressing ending, etc. It's kind of like the original tragedy, if you want to think about it that way.
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