I believes almost all members of drama class that I take now likes Oedipus Rex play very much. Oedipus Rex that written by famous ancient Greek playwrite; Sophocles is one of the best storyline I ever read. Lately, my friend and I always keep talking about this drama. I gave my personal opinion; what Sophocles had done with the incident in this drama might happen for real during those times. The incident that I mention here is the incident where people was having sex and married with his or her own blood relatives including parents. Maybe the characters are not Oedipus Rex, Laios and others but society. I called this social sickness. Here’s are the example of the story that happened in almost the same story with Oedipus Rex play; Alexander with his mother. Not to forget Rom king; Caesar with his sister. All of these examples are related to forbidden adultery or ‘social sickness’ I should called. This social sickness is even happen in this modernity era. No examples and prove can be provided for the modernity era of social sickness’ incident but we all know it did happened.
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This time I have to agree with you about the social sickness that you mentioned which is forbidden adultery. As you mentioned, the world is now has come to an end because we do not know what is right or wrong anymore. I believe, all of this happens because more and more people have lost their guidance from God. It shows in the Oedipus Rex when Oedipus committed the murder of his biological father and slept with his own mother just because he did not believe in his own fate.
Sophocles tried to remind us that in every era, this problem can be repeated many times over. We should bear in mind then.
The world now is like repeating the mistakes that have been done many centuries ago. People now do not care much about the history, this is why the adultery or social sickness is happening so much in our era now. People do not take the moral of what they learn in history. They keep on repeating the mistakes. Or I should say people now do not know how to differentiate what is wrong and what is right. Maybe the end of the world is coming, that's why people behaving so badly now.
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