Buena Vista de “Oedipus The King” Do you have a great understanding of “Oedipus the King”? The understanding provoked by reading this story is not accidental but intentional. Sophocles wants the reader to walk away with condemnation and regret. The reader can not help but to walk away from the book with a better understanding of fate. The knowledge gained is going to be different for each reader. To understand the story, an eye examination …showed first 75 words of 1384 total…

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