Oedipus
Oedipus the King
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once identified the key ingredients of the tragedies that his culture is so famous for. These ingredients include a character with a fatal flaw, the realization of the fault for a particular problem and the final sudden reversal of fortune. For many tragedies, the fatal flaw is demonstrated as excessive […]
“My Oedipus Complex” by Frank O’ Connor
In the story “My Oedipus Complex”, Frank O’ Connor writes about a little boy Larry and his relationship with his parents. Everything was fine when his father was away for war because Larry got all the attention and love from the mother. When the father returned from the war, Larry felt that he had to […]
Fate vs. Free Will (Oedipus Rex)
Sophocles creates a world that makes the reader think about the complex and mysterious battle between fate and free will in his play Oedipus The King. To the characters, fate is real and that’s what they believe in. The audience sees that Oedipus is the one making the divisions and altimetry it is himself that […]
My Oedipus Complex: Larry
The short story My Oedipus Complex written by F. O’Connor in 1963 is a story about the boy named Larry, who holds a great love for his mother and hatred for his father, just the same as the psychological phenomenon in which the story was named after. With a humorous style mixed with satire, the […]
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