Darkness Within Light: The Story Of Oedipus: Darkness Within Light

Darkness Within Light

A clever woman once said, “Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.” The story of Oedipus is a genuinely complex one, including inexplicable accounts of patricide and incest; malefaction. Oedipus was a ruler, a king, he was a driven and motivated man who put his all into all that he did, but is a social status enough to cover a crime?

Within an act unknowingly of incest, Oedipus took the throne as king due to the marriage to his mother. Although the gruesome event, Oedipus had no idea he was in a relationship with one, whom, well, was related. Oedipus had grown without his father from such a young age, that he did

As for Oedipus’s luck, he was found and raised, but not by his mother or father. This lack of knowledge as to who his parents were, set up Oedipus for a life he did not set out for. Oedipus, through the words of a prophet, was raised on the belief that he was destined for murder, all while having the personal aspirations of being a ruler. Due to this state of mind for murder given by the prophet, Oedipus set way to go the Thebes to try to escape her envisions for him. While on his way, Oedipus crossed paths with a man whom he did not know, only to end up killing him. Once Oedipus reached Thebes, he was approached with the news of the death of their king. He sought to be king, to have power, and when Oedipus was offered the throne over a solved riddle, he took that shot, and he won it. Oedipus was raised upon the idea that he had won his place for the throne, never that he had killed a man for it, nevermind his father. How is one to know that he’s committed a crime, when the crime is kept secret from

For all that Oedipus had ever known, he was doing what was considered to be right, he was doing what should be done, what is correct. Oedipus had tried getting answers times before, yet no one wanted to tell him the truth. He was a man that had goals and visions, things that he aspired to do; he was driven and motivated to complete tasks when sought out. He was a ruler; a leader. It would have been one thing if Oedipus had been raised by his mother his whole life, known her and who she was, killed his father knowingly, and married her all to take place at the throne, but he didn’t. Oedipus was raised by strangers, set his goals and worked to pursue them, he made his way to Thebes to go after a dream, and when approached with the situation that this city’s king had died and he had his chance for royalty, he took it. Taking the shot onto achieving his goal required him to partake in the marriage to the queen, unknowingly that it was his mother. Even though his actions had been physically wrong, his intentions were pure and in the right