An Intellectual and Emotional Response to Oedipus the King :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

An Intellectual and Emotional Response to Oedipus the King date reading the spell Oedipus the King, my resolution to the work became more and more buy the farm as the play continued. When I finished the play, my reaction to the work and to dickens particular characters was startling and very different from my response while I was stock-still reading. My initial response was to the text, and it was mostly an intellectual hotshot. I snarl cheated by the play because the challenge of solving the mystery of the plot was bollocks up for me by the obvious clues laid protrude in the work. My second response was not as intellectual instead, it came more from a feeling that the play evoked in me. I felt a strong mortification in the drastic actions that Oedipus and Jocasta took at the end of the play. My two different responses to Oedipus the King, one intellectual and one not, now seem to feed off and to blow up each other as if they were one collective response. The plays plo t, in a nutshell, develops like this. After solving the riddle of the Sphynx, who had kept Thebes under a curse of some kind, Oedipus is invited to become king of the city. He marries Jocasta, the widow of the anterior king, and they have two children. When the play begins, Thebes is again under some tell apart of curse, and Oedipus tries to find out its cause so that he can give up the city. He is told that the cause of the curse is that the murderer of the preceding(prenominal) king is still in the city and has gone unpunished. In the process of searching for the murderer, Oedipus discovers that it is he, himself, who is responsible and that he is actually the son of Jocasta and her previous husband. Horrified by his sins of incest and murder, Oedipus claws out his eyes. Jocasta commits suicide because she is so disgraced. My disappointment in the lack of mystery in the plot of the play was evoked by the continual clues appearing passim the play. For example, in Oedipuss fi rst speech to the people of Thebes, he condemns the murderer of the previous king, stating that he will suffer no unbearable punishment, nothing worsened than exile (261-62). This is the first of a multitude of clues about the outcome of the play.