Oedipus Rex
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In the play , it tells of a man who is forced by fate to live a life of lies and deceet. He is hounded by prophecy and cursed to a doomed existance. Aristotle had believed that was one of the penultimate tragedies of all time. Aristotle broke what he thou ....
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.... said it was
Laios' child. but it is your wife who could tell
you about that.
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Shepherd: There had been prophecies...
Oedipus: Tell me.
Shepherd: It was said that the boy would kill his own father.
Oedipus: Then why did you give him over to this man?
Shepherd: I pitied the baby, my king, And I thought that
this man would take him far away to his own country.
He saved him- but for what a fate! For if you are what
this mane say ....
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