Artists are sensitive people who feel sufferings, sorrows, and feelings of others. The art of writing illustrates the author’s feelings, passions, and emotions relating to the certain manners or incidents occurred around. Their thoughts and expressions have a tendency to be the narration commons. The pains of the voiceless people are depicted in the writings of poets and writers and these highlights heal the wounds of oppressed. The literary persons ought to be sincere with the readers and express genuine and true pictures of their observations.
The Greek dramatist Sophocles in his trilogy Oedipus The King explains the story of King Oedipus who was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before his birth, an oracle had predicted that the child will kill his father (Laius) and will marry his own mother (Jocasta). To prevent the occurrence of the prophecy, the parents abandoned the innocent with bleeding ankles.
Poor Oedipus was raised by the childless King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. Later on, the young Oedipus got to know the same prophecy by god Apollo and could not receive accurate answers to his questions regarding the matter (the young man was unaware that his current parents were not his natural parents). Anyhow, in order to get rid of the prediction, he escaped from Corinth in extreme rage. Consequently, the angry young man killed an old man in his way without knowing that he was his real father.
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Afterward, fate helped Oedipus the rex to reach in Thebes, where he saved the lives of the residents by solving the riddle of the sphinx. As a reward, he was made the king of Thebes and tied a knot with the widowed queen. It is said that uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Similarly, being a king of the land, when he probed the death of the previous king, he decided exile of the criminal after getting familiar with the fact of the presence of the murderer in his kingdom.
Finally, the truth revealed that Oedipus was the one who took the life of king Laius and got married to the queen Jocasta (his real mother). Jocasta attempted suicide and to Oedipus, it was too difficult to bear this harsh reality, so he blinded himself from the dead Jocasta’s brooches and preferred self-exile for himself.
In this story, Oedipus had an option to take charge of the Corinth. But the preference of self-exile and self-blindness is an illustration that culture, moral values and holiness of relations are the same for the people living in any corner of the world.
