Oedipus The King

[Madness]

Anybody wanna give me a brief summary? I honestly wanna know if it's worth spending time reading it for class or not. Yes. I'm a lazy bastard.

[John Travolta]

English motherfucker, do you speak it?

[Madness]

asshole.

[Idioteque]

Don't be a lazy bastard, read the fucking book, you don't need a summary for it.

I hate it when people are too lazy to read.

[Madness]

I like to read but I hate being disappointed by a boring book. I also had to read Poisonwood Bible and I wanted to shoot myself in the middle of the book. The only plus side is that it actually got somewhat intriguing.

[John Travolta]

asshole.

You're a fucking idiot. I just gave you the summary of the book.

[Madness]

Oh I thought you were trying to be a douche. Sorry. Thanks... I guess.

[abbey]

It takes longer to make a thread about it and wait for replies than it would to actually read it. Seriously, I don't read extremely fast, and it took me about 45 minutes. Just skip the poems.

[Madness]

Alright. I haven't actually gotten the book in the mail so I don't know how long it is.

[mohaas05]

Oedipus fucks his wife who turns out to be his mom. His mom hangs herself, he mutilates his eyes.

It's basically 200 pages of unknown incest.

[abbey]

It's really short, and actually not a bad read.

[MistyTehMoose]

It's awesome, but I am a drama nerd.

[Madness]

Sounds awesome.

[John Travolta]

It actually is a pretty good read.

[Ercoledi]

He also kills his dad, but porking his mum is so much more interesting.

[Mistress_Spade]

I had to study Oedipus couple years a go, got top marks for the essay I wrote on it at end of year exams too. The overall message behind it is that it is folly to attempt to change that which is fate and defy what the higher beings that be have already decided for you. Oedipus's parents heard a prophecy that said their new born son was fated to kill his father and marry his mother (it was a punishment handed down by the gods because Oedipus's father once kidnapped and raped an 11 year old boy) so they attempted to avoid this fate by abandoning the infant in the wilderness with metal rods hammered into his ankles so he couldnt even crawl.

But this desperate and cruel act is what, ironically, leads Oedipus to do exactly what the prophecy said he would do, though he is unaware of it until it's much too late and he's already killed his father, married his mother and had 3 incestuous children with her. It's a typical greek tragedy.