Question

"To tell it right, it was through you

I found my life and breathed again,
and then through you my eyesight failed."

Oedipus the King was written during a time of shifting religious beliefs. Identify the key components of this shift and suggest how they might arise in the themes of the play.

Answer 1

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The Oedipus the King shows a problem when Oedipus Rex refused to accept the truth: He is the cause of plague and he murder the previous king. One of the major themes in this play is the inevitability of fate.
The key components of this shift and suggest how they might arise in the themes of the play is that the revelation of the events and truth that Oedipus himself won't then and there believed.