Corruption In The Oedipus Complex

The Greek drama “Oedipus The King” evidently leads to the unveiling of a tragedy. Oedipus, the protagonist of the play uncovers his tragic birth story and the curse he had been baring his whole life. Oedipus is notorious for his personal insight that helped him defeat Sphinx, which lead him to becoming the king of Thebes. He is admired by the people of Thebes and is considered to be a mature, inelegant and a rational leader. From his birth, his story began with a prophecy that Oedipus would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Through out the play numerous people, who tell him of his unknown past, visit Oedipus. Blind to the truth he casts them away until a blind man named Therisis gives a sight of truth to Oedipus. As Oedipus learns the truth he realizes the great evil his life carries. After finding his wife and also mother hung in her bedroom, Oedipus blinds himself with the gold pins that held Jocasta’s robe. Oedipus blind to the truth is finally able to see when the old blind man visits him and tells him the truth about his life. Both metaphorically and physically sight plays a significant role in understanding the irony of a blind man seeing the truth while Oedipus who isn’t blind doesn’t seem to the truth that’s right in front of him.

Freud, Sigmund. “The Oedipus Complex.” Trans. James Strachey. A World of Ideas. 7th ed. Print.

Charles could see Erik giving up as sharply as he felt it, the small spark that he’d come to label in his own mind as ‘life force’ dwindling to an ember and extinguishing. He was stepping forward before he could stop himself, blooding rushing in his ears against time as he spoke. “Dēsístite!“

A man and a child, father and son, are alone against an inclement nature while pushing a cart filled with tools, blankets, and things that they have found along the way to the south. About ten years before the world had been reduced to ashes by an apocalyptic disaster, which it is not known whether it was caused by a natural event or the foolishness of human beings. The world is reduced to a single color, gray, that of the ashes covering all that is left, that of hearts and minds, clouded by the pain of the loss and the terror of solitude. All that is left of the humankind is a few tenacious survivors struggling unceasingly against hunger and cold, and those who have lost any trace of humanity giving free vent to the lowest instincts of oppression and violence. But in the novel “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the catastrophic consequences of a cataclysm that are nothing more than an excuse to minimize the outer contingencies with the sole purpose to bring up what is really dear to his heart, the relationship between a father and a son. They have been deliberately left unnamed for the whole story to epitomize the archetypes of the man and the child, a hymn to paternity, and to unconditional love. In a world reduced to the essentials, McCarthy aims not merely to explore the complexities of the relationship between the two, which in fact remains

This story is a perfect model for a great tragedy because it emphasizes on human weakness and man’s inability to change his destiny. “Oedipus the King” was introduced by Sophocles in which he introduced the achievements of Oedipus. It takes you on the journey or Oedipus and this tragic things that he goes through. Although Oedipus was a good person and a true hero, he was the unfortunate one to discover that the gods were only playing with him. Oedipus has everything a man of that time could ever want: he has a great wife and children, he becomes the king of Thebes, and has great fame throughout the lands. “The world knows my name; I am Oedipus.”

Currently, it seems that popular literature is filled with post-apocalyptic novels. These books sometimes venture into the fantasy and sci-fi genres, but always they portray the author’s idea of what humanity could look like after the world as we know it has ended. More importantly, they serve as mirrors for the vices currently plaguing society, demonstrating how these faults metastasize into major forces of evil when placed in the context of desperate circumstances. The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s harrowing description of a father-son pair slogging through the desolation of an unknown apocalypse, is no exception. McCarthy sets himself apart by emphasizing the nature of good and evil, utilizing flawless prose, and relentlessly confronting the reader with the inescapability of mortality. Truly, The Road is a brutally honest commentary on humanity’s capacity for cruelty and the never-ending struggle towards goodness.

It is fair to say that Oedipus had many flaws that would eventually allow him to go from being a “great” king and savior of a city, to being a looked at very shamefully and ruining the city of Thebes. Oedipus did some heroic things to get into certain positions throughout his life, but would ruin them all with his cockiness, prowess, and over eccentric pride.

In a world dominated by evil and despair, McCarthy’s novel challenges the reader to consider an alternative pathway that involves faith or one’s inner ‘fire’ or spirituality in order to avoid a negative fate.

McCarthy uses a lot of different quotes in the novel to symbolizes different things such as violence, love, mortality, spirituality, isolation, good vs evil, memory and the past, strength and skill, versions of reality and compassion and forgiveness. The man in the novel looks after the boy and make sure he has everything he needs before he provides for himself. He wants the boy to experience things and make sure he has a good life because he know his time is almost up and he wants to spend the time with the boy and make sure he is doing great. McCarthy’s writing style reflects sparseness in that he chooses to write in fragments and he keeps the father’s and son’s dialogue turbulent. Also the language of this novel reflects the skeletal and barren landscape through which father and son must

I as well enjoyed reading your comment. However, I do not completely agree with you when you wrote that Oedipus” accusing the seer of conspiring with his right hand man with an attempt to remove him from power.”(Ahmed par.1). I believe that the reason that Oedipus accused Teiresias of conspiracy was to get equal with him, since Teiresias was trying to say the villain was Oedipus, was doing the same thing. This relates to Stage 1 of Kohlberg’s stages which states, “People make decisions based on what is best for themselves, without regard for others' needs or feelings “(level 1).At this point Oedipus is trying to keep the argument balanced, Just like the seer was trying to convince the public Oedipus was the villain Oedipus was trying to convince

Regarding the arguments in Chapter 2, I can agree that the Oedipus complex can be related with the story “Through the Tunnel “. In spite of it I have reason to believe that the complex is a first sight thought while reading the story, because it isn’t related as much as it is argued. Starting with the characters, the unconditional care that the mother has for Jerry, an eleven year old including also the unconsciousness that he might have can be seen as an impossibility for the act, the affection of the naked boys and along with many others. The complex involves three protagonist.

The boy then feels hostility and jealously towards his father, but then will come to realize that his father is much more powerful then he is. Freud says, “ the boy will then experience castration anxiety which is the fear that his father will punish him by castration (Freud, 1993) .” Fixation at a particular stage may result If the developmental conflicts are not successfully resolved. He figured if this feelings were not successfully resolved then they would contribute to neuroses in later life. The only way anyone could resolve the Oedipus Complex and the anxieties from the complex , the boy ultimately will join force with the enemy by resorting to the defense mechanism of identification.

is a trait viewed as being favorable to a character at first, but it leads to their later downfall. It was often used in ancient Greek tragedies to show that mankind was susceptible to flaw. This was present in Sophocles 's tragedy, Oedipus the King. The protagonist of the tragedy,Oedipus, was not exempt from his own flaws. Oedipus’s traits of excessive pride and desire for knowing the truth were advantageous to him in the beginning, yet were the very things that contributed to his tragic downfall.

"Oedipus the King" is a tragic play showing a shift from the belief of fate to freedom of choice. Therefore, Oedipus the king is a great example of those who run from fate ends up fulfilling their fate

Standard Greek tragedies are constructed very similarly if not exactly the same in terms of their structure and according to the philosopher Aristotle, there are specific elements that absolutely must be included. One of the most important requirements is that the main character remains consistent with the traits they were given, meaning they never commit an action that could potentially be viewed as out of line for them. Unfortunately, in the play Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, the inability to understand mistakes and overall arrogance Oedipus possesses throughout the entire duration of events is what ultimately brings him to meet the inevitable conclusions about himself and the others around him. In each circumstance his flaws are quite apparent to everyone yet he refuses to accept them for what they essentially are and continues his process of rejection. His weaknesses are portrayed in several situations all the way from the beginning to the end of the plot and while the realization of his faults seems to take an eternity to arrive, the acknowledgement is eventually made that his blindness was caused by his incurable vision of himself.