henüz oyunlara alışık bir okur değilim. bu türe, en iyi örneklerini barındıran antik yunan tragedyasından başlamak istedim. kral oedipus'u seçmemdeki amaç ise yazıldığı dönemden binlerce yıl sonra bile ilham kaynağı olmayı başarmış olması oldu.

the doors'un "the end" isimli müthiş şarkısında, her dinleyenin merakını ve ilgisini çeken; jim morrison'ın meşhur;
-father
-yes son...
repliğini içinde barındıran bölümü dinledikten sonra öğrenmiştim zaten, freud'un zamanında "oedipus karmaşası" olarak psikoloji literatürüne kattığı bu antik anlatıyı.

yirmi beş yüzyıl önce yazılmış, "insanın kaderinde ne yazıyorsa o olur" temalı eserde, insanlara, durumların ne kadar kolay değişebileceği, kimseyi sonuna kadar görmeden, o kişiyle ilgili peşin yargıya varmamak gerektiği anlatılıyor. rüzgarın ne kadar kolay ve hızlı yön değiştirebileceği, olabilecek en trajik ve çarpıcı bir örnekle gözlerimizin önüne seriliyor.

bu kadar basit bir şekilde özetlediğim için yanlış anlaşılmasın, tabi ki yirminci yüzyılın metafor fışkıran eserleri gibi değil ancak kesinlikle edebi kaygı barındıran ve dilin ustalıkla kullanıldığı bir eser.

"From these hands of mine you drank my own, your father's blood."

this play is so good. i do not like it :(

plays that feel like biting electrical wires. plays that feel like eating glass. the tragedy of this play is the dramatic irony--the Knowing the entire time & having to watch the truth unfold, with slow horror-movie inevitability, for oedipus himself--a man who wants nothing more than to find the truth, to untangle this riddle like he did with that of the sphinx. and it's that curiosity and sense of noble duty that undoes him. plays that make you have to draw a little :{ face in the margins three or four times

(talk about bad breaks. can you imagine being the guy who solved the sphinx's riddle, and all anyone ever wants to talk about is how you fucked your mom?)

translations read: whichever one i read on genius.com that time, frank nisetich

Oedipus of Sophocles is a great work of art written by a great poet,this play symbolizes for the human misery and despair...
the torments of the human soul,the innocence and guilt,Wisdom Out of Suffering and Fate that determines many things no matter how we struggle to change it....
Oedipus hears about his dreadful fate from the Delphic oracle and flees from Corinth. But instead of fleeing from his fate he runs into it...

Oedipus a passionate heart,who ask questions and take risks,has all the qualities of a great man...he has gone through sudden shifts on the course of his life and lets every situation control him....

Despite his flaws, Oedipus is a good person who seeks the truth no matter how devastating. and who accept the responsibility for his actions.....

At the end of the play, Oedipus accepts his fate as well as the punishment given to him ....

He had promised to exile the one who is responsible for the plague , and he fulfills his promise even if he himself is the one to be exiled. By mercilessly punishing himself, he becomes a great hero...
who has a Respect for Justice ....

Jocasta, on the other hand, appears as a person who would rather control the situation. She reveals that she is more mature than Oedipus and even reveals a maternal side towards him. This is evident in the way she tries to stop Oedipus from investigating further into the mystery of his birth. At this point, she has realized the possibility that Oedipus may be her son. She would rather let the dreadful fact remain a mystery then let it ruin their lives
The entwined sheets with which she hangs herself symbolize the double life she has led........

Oedipus tragic position and his trial to elude the prophecies and to challenge his Fate, that was inevitable as he at last fails, but just having the courage to attempt , makes him a true hero.

This play raises a question,when someone is trying to avoid doing things. Does he have free will or the ability to choose his own path or is everything in life predetermined?

ولی به‌نظرم اصل داستان اون دانش و داستان پیش‌زمینه‌ایه که خواننده قبل از خوندن نمایشنامه باید بدونه. اصلش ماجرای تقدیر و رها کردن ادیپ و به واقعیت پیوستن پیشگویی بود، این فقط داستان به دانایی رسیدن ادیپ بود. البته کم هم نبود. خدایان واقعاً ناعادل‌اند و زیر سلطه‌ی اونا و تقدیرهاشون ته بی‌انصافیه...
درد داره دونستن.
از خیلی وقت پیش می‌گفتم، کاش احمق بودم و خوشحال. همچین داستانی اصلاً تو ذهنم نبود و به هدف دیگه‌ای اینو می‌گفتم. اما واقعاً بیاید و ببینید، آدم احمق باشه و ندونه دلش خیلی خوش‌تره.

این نمایشنامه رو با ترجمه‌ی شاهرخ مسکوب خوندم که بسیار زیبا بوده و دوست داشتم.

OMG this Oedipus dude just totally banged out his own mom LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLZ

But really, there were descendants whose genetic makeup is irrevocably tied into my own that were walking the Earth when Sophocles wrote this play. And here I am, in 2017, thousands of years later, reading it. Literature serves humanity in subtle yet profound ways; it is one of the only bridges we have into the psychology of the past. The world is so goddamn complicated. Reading books like this make me feel gigantic and tiny at the same time.

“Aunque tú tienes vista, no ves en qué grado de desgracia te encuentras ni dónde habitas ni con quiénes transcurre tu vida.”

Con Edipo Rey me llevé una gran sorpresa para bien. El no conocer casi nada de lo que iba el argumento de esta obra me ha hecho disfrutarla aún más.

Coincido con los comentarios que he podido revisar después de mi lectura: la representación de una persona que no puede huir de su propio destino, un destino que ha sido escrito y no puede ser cambiado. La sucesión de acontecimientos en esta historia demuestra claramente esta situación.

Ahora no recuerdo bien, pero creo que este es mi primer acercamiento a un autor de la Grecia Antigua, aunque con tal elección fue desde luego un buen comienzo.

Obviously, in terms of quality this is a 5-star play (best plot of anything ever, and some of the most haunting speeches in all of literature). The translation I read (Paul Roche's) favored precision over readability, which meant the strophe/antistrophe sections were a bit unwieldy. Also, Jocasta. This play obviously needed more Jocasta. Still, if you haven't read this, what are you doing with your life.

I can say that the movie and the book were both delightful.

Edipo Rey constituye una de las más famosas y emblemáticas piezas de la tragedia griega. Concebida por Sófocles, el más destacado de los dramaturgos que alguna vez habitasen Atenas, esta obra maestra debe su fama a lo implacable de su construcción, el fervor de su fuerza dramática y lo agudo de su ironía. Es además sumamente rica en estilismos y poética en el desenvolvimiento de los coros haciendo de su lenguaje narrativo no sólo elevado y distintivo sino profundamente bello. Su concepto, además, tan malicioso como brutal es eficaz en reflejar algunas de las creencias más características de la época en cuestiones como las deidades, el destino y el honor. Edipo Rey no sólo reúne los elementos de la tragedia sino que se enriquece de una retorcida originalidad que en lo depravado de su concepto halla también su cualidad de fascinante.

nothin like a forced reread in order to write a terrible paper

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classic oedipus!!! always going and getting himself into life-ruining, city-destroying shenanigans :')

As a student in a Greek high school I was more or less forced to read this, translate it from the ancient Greek text for my exams to "prove" I deserved to go to the next educational level (where we did Homer), do assignments on it, listen to my professors as they spoke of its "meaning" and ask myself why Sophocles wrote it to begin with. And I HATED the damn thing. I hated Oedipus just as much as I hated Sophocles.

However, when I left high school, I realized that people - not only in Greece, but around the world - praised it as a masterful writing. Even though a Greek tragedy - with the always heavy hovering Fate over the heroes and their family tree - it's so much more than what my high school teacher told us it was. I wasn't mature enough to understand it then (I viewed Oedipus as a incestuous, poor bastard at the time!) I'm old enough to do so now. And not many things can be said about its vastly horrific grandeur.

DUDE GOES BLIND BANGS MOM LOL