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Oh, The Irony~ Logan Turner

 Bonus blog time! This is my first ever bonus blog so you should be honored. Also, I forgot about whether or not I could talk about all of Oedipus, so I'm gonna talk about the whole thing and just hope for the best.

So, I first read Oedipus senior year of high school. I really enjoyed it for  few reasons. One of which was because I already knew I was interested in the field of psychology and I knew this was where the name of the Oedipal Complex came from. But that's not what I'm gonna talk about. Instead, I'm gonna talk about the dramatic irony in the story. My personal favorite part about the whole thing is that Oedipus tried so hard to avoid his fate and ran towards it instead. The faster he ran from what he thought was his fate, the faster he ran to his actual fate, making the prediction come true. It kind of reminds me of someone in a horror movie running away from a monster, and in their panic, they run straight into a wall and knock themselves out. The whole "running away from one's destiny actually brings them closer to it" thing is actually one of my favorite tropes in any form of media, and I live for it; and it works especially well with Oedipus Rex.


Edit: Commented on Lily Caswell's and Caroline Tucker's posts

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  1. Lily CaswellOctober 14, 2020 at 9:56 PM

    I noticed that too! I thought about the story of Jonah because even though Jonah starts running, he ends up getting to where God wanted him in the first place. The whole play is full of irony but this was the one I noticed the most.

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  2. Caroline TuckerOctober 14, 2020 at 10:17 PM

    I completely agree! My first thought about running away from destiny makes the character closer to it was about “Revenge of the Sith”. In desperation to not let his vision into the future come true, he set up for the very thing to happen. Personally I blame the parents (both sets) for not telling him who his parents were.

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