Write a 6 page essay on English Literature.Download file to see previous pages... By investigating the cultural perspective of suicide by hanging, readers cannot only enrich their readings of Sophocle

Write a 6 page essay on English Literature.

By investigating the cultural perspective of suicide by hanging, readers cannot only enrich their readings of Sophocles version of the Greek myth but enhance their understanding of what the Greeks have placed on marriage and family ties. Sophocles’ version of the Greek myth has been used since Sophocles made a choice. However, from this book Kennedy and (1995) have not precisely stated whether it was Sophocles who originally invented the tragic play. Thesis statement: Sophocles develops the chief characters such as Oedipus by characterizing them uniquely, to make the audience feel fearful and pitiful. How Sophocles refutes Aristole’s definition of tragedy: To exemplify Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero, Sophocles begins the play by portraying Oedipus as a man who is not an evil dictator but one who strives to achieve the best for his family and Thebes. the city that he rules over. As the play progresses, Sophocles introduces an old man who prophecies of future doom in Oedipus’s life (Kennedy &amp. Gioia, 1995). A few questions here and there from his kinsmen clarified to him that he was adopted, and the parents, he knew, were not his biological parents. The pieces of his mysterious past life unfold as the story unfolds. Oedipus soon learns that the prophecy he had received sometimes back at the Oracle of Delphi is fulfilled. According to Aristotle, Oedipus cannot escape his prophecy which precisely indicated that he would kill his biological father and marry his biological mother. This is a tragedy that most members in the audience and readers find rather disturbing. The audience is gripped with an increased sense of fear Oedipus attempts to escape his fate only to run into it. The prophecy designated that there would come a time when Oedipus would kill his father and would marry his real-birth mother. On learning about his future, the king ran away from home in an unfruitful attempt to escape this disturbing prophecy. When he was on the way, he had a fight with a man and it only resulted to death of the stranger. He later came to learn that the man he had killed was his real father. It gets worse in the second part of the prophecy when he soon learns that he married Jocasta. his mother without the knowledge that she was his mother. When Jocasts learns of this tragedy she hangs herself. Oedipus leaves the world of sanity due to his state of terror. However, he does not kill himself like his wife/mother. he decides to end his misery by stabbing his eyes until he is blind. Soon after inflicting himself with blindness, Oedipus views his actions to be wrong as can be evidently outlined when he says. “What use are my eyes to me, who could never see anything pleasant again?” (Sophocles &amp. Plumptre, 2005). He indicates that blindness does not have to be the physical blindness as evidently shown when he says “If I had sight, I know not with what eyes I would have looked” (Sophocles &amp. Plumptre, 2005). He makes his exile while screaming. “The agony! I am agony, where am I going? Where on earth? Where does all this agony hurl me?” (Sophocles &amp. Plumptre, 2005) The way in which Oedipus’ life changes from a happy life, to one which is shocking, is extremely disturbing as it involves some of the most tragic actions that are unexpected. The audience has to watch the unfolding events in all the horror.