Oedpius Rex Reflection
... ” Sophocles’ play, Oedipus Rex, can be viewed a paradoxical chronicle of the life of Oedipus. ... For every two steps forward he would take one back, and by reading this message in the play, we can arrive at a possible motive behind Oedipus Rex being a portrait of human suffering. ... I attribute Oedipus’ actions at the end of Oedipus Rex, to the mounting hope which he pinned on that one little chance that he was not the murderer of the king.