William Chiu

The fame of story of Oepidus Rex became relevant to me when i began to realize that T had heard of the story long before when i was merely just a child. i had seen a comical reanactment of the tale in an episode of the cartoon sitcom "the Simpsons. " The story was definitely a breath of fresh air in comparison to the stories of war that we have been reading in the past few tales. The meaning behind the story fails to have any significance to my reality however. I cannot birng myself to believing the strength of superstitions and fate to determine the events of my life and most importantly death. I believe he could have prevented the horrible events that seemed to pile upon one another in sequence, if he would have kept his head high and ignored his fate. His eyes would have been spared and he could have even continoued to be shielded from the truth which eventually forced him to over react to the situation which unevitably changed his future.