This week in AP Lit we read the book Oedipus and I was confused for the majority for the book. Reason number one, I couldn't keep track of which character was which and how they related to other character's. Number two, the beginning of book started in the middle of story, so for me it was hard to keep track of which knowledge characters knew or didn't know.
I don't necessarily think tragedy is horribly confusing but Oedipus probably wasn't the easiest example to follow. When I think of tragedy I think of it as a pretty straight forward set of events, something bad happens, and then you as a person look and see the repercussions of the after effects. But in the book Oedipus in order to find the tragedy within the story, you have to be aware of why characters proceed with certain actions. Since the book's events all happened based on a prophecy (which later ends up being true), and all of the characters are aware of the prophecy, it creates an supernatural thing within the story that doesn't happen in reality. I actually did like the book Oedipus after we finished the whole book. I noticed that my many questions of who were who, and how they related to each other didn't really matter because the endgame of the story is that the prophecy did come true. I think that's one weird thing about this book is that none of my questions about the context of the book needed to be answered, in order for me to understand the legitimate ending of the book.
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