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em_brebs 's review for:
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
I'm not going to do my normal review for this book, since it seems there is not enough to really talk about (at least for me.) I also think that the plot of this book is well enough known (or not cared about as someone needs to read it for school) that I needn't do a spoilers section or a blurb. These are the things that sparknotes are for.
My thoughts:
I found this book a little, well, messed up… I wasn't a huge fan of Oedipus (though some of the reasons that I disliked him are pretty much just based on the time. Like totally unnecessary and absurd amounts of violence and marrying the wives of previous rulers just… because.)
I think one of the things that kind of tarnished this experience for me was because I did read it, as opposed to having seen it which can take out a little bit of the emotion behind it. Like, when Oedipus's wife commits suicide, I didn't really feel a whole lot and that could be because of the short length of the piece or because of the lack of adjectives used to describe characters' manner of speech etc. that would be added in prose or preformed in a play.
You've got to wonder what prompted this kind of book in the author. It so old and yet these types of scandals and issues were still debated and thought about. And there was no fear in writing a fairly depressing play in which the main character isn't really a hero, simply a normal human.
I don't have anything else to say. It was interesting, I'm glad I read it but I wouldn't necessarily go out and read it again for fun or anything: 83%
My thoughts:
I found this book a little, well, messed up… I wasn't a huge fan of Oedipus (though some of the reasons that I disliked him are pretty much just based on the time. Like totally unnecessary and absurd amounts of violence and marrying the wives of previous rulers just… because.)
I think one of the things that kind of tarnished this experience for me was because I did read it, as opposed to having seen it which can take out a little bit of the emotion behind it. Like, when Oedipus's wife commits suicide, I didn't really feel a whole lot and that could be because of the short length of the piece or because of the lack of adjectives used to describe characters' manner of speech etc. that would be added in prose or preformed in a play.
You've got to wonder what prompted this kind of book in the author. It so old and yet these types of scandals and issues were still debated and thought about. And there was no fear in writing a fairly depressing play in which the main character isn't really a hero, simply a normal human.
I don't have anything else to say. It was interesting, I'm glad I read it but I wouldn't necessarily go out and read it again for fun or anything: 83%