The play Oedipus Rex is very unique. The plot of it is like nothing I’ve ever read before. After reading the end of the play I remember thinking about how melodramatic it was. Oedipus was so torn apart by his discovery, but what I enjoyed the most is the dramatic irony. Sophocles manages to cleverly clue in the audience of what is going to happen before Oedipus himself knew what was going on. When the sphinx asked him the riddle “What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs at night?” Oedipus had no idea this had double meaning, that it was also foreshadowing him having “three legs” or being blind and using a walking stick.
The unfolding of events in the final act was much too dramatic to my liking although it was tragic how Jocasta ended up hanging herself to death out of shame. Oedipus blinded himself because he couldn’t bear to lay eyes on his mother who was also the woman he had married. He said a very emotional goodbye to his daughters and begged Creon to take care of them. Another thing I liked was that Creon wasn’t rude about the way he cast Oedipus out, he showed grace in a situation where he didn’t have to.
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