Tragedies

This week we had to turn in our drafts for our papers. I had a hard time thinking of what to put in the paper. It did not help that I waited till the day that it was due to write it. I think that I did an ok job on the paper but there is a lot of work that can be done to improve it. This week we also had to start reading Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. I found some parts a little confusing because I don’t know a lot about Greek mythology but I think that I understood the most important parts. We had to think of question to ask our peers about what we read. One of the questions I came up with was why did the queen not want Oedipus to continue his search for the truth. One answer we came up with was that she suspected that Oedipus was her son and that he killed his father. She did not want Oedipus to know the truth so that she would not have to deal with the problems that came after. Another was if Oedipus would carry out the punishment that he said would be for the killer of the king. We said that he would punish himself so that the people would not get angry at him.