Friday, October 22, 2010
Post #3 (For 10/22/10)
Honestly, when we first started reading Oedipus, I wasn't really into it and I thought it wasn't very interesting. The things happening in the play started getting a lot more interesting though, and it was cool to know what was going to happen in the end. It didn't bother me that I already knew what was happening, I liked seeing how everything unfolded and how everybody found things out and had the truth come out in the open. I liked this because I think that the truth always comes out, and Oedipus is an example of this. I thought the ending was very tragic and dramatic, which made it a lot more interesting. I thought that Oedipus gauging his eyes out was overly dramatic, but I think that he just didn't want to live in a world where the truth was hurting him, so he didn't want to see it anymore. It's sad that people resort to things like this because they are not able to deal with their emotions. I think the story of Oedipus really was a tragedy.
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I felt pretty much the same way Alejandra did about Oedipus, at first. I didn't really seem to understand the point but as I read more and more I started understand the point of it. And I agree, I think it's a different kind of tragedy that we aren't used to, the kind were the character doesn't know how to handle and deal with his emotions so they resort to taking different kinds of actions, ones we aren't very used to seeing.
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