Oedipus The King Story Novels & Stories

"Let me to tell you a story, Jaxon." Kitang-kita niya kung paano ito nabagot. Pumuti ang mata nitong umirap, tingin sa kung saan. Nagpatuloy naman siya. "Once upon a time, there was a couple who got married and had a child. The wife disappeared for a long time, and their son set out to find her. When the son returned, he was sent to Oblivion. Later, when the wife came back, she confronted her husband, but he did not recognize her as his wife." "What the hell are you talking about?" nanlalaki ang mga mata nitong tanong.

And then he told her his own history. 'l am a King's son. Once when my father was fighting against some dragons, who were the scourge Of our country, I slew the youngest dragon. His mother, who was a witch, cast a spell over me and changed me into a Pig. It was she who in the disguise of an old woman gave you the thread to bind round my foot. So that instead of the three days that had to run before the spell was broken, I was forced to remain a Pig for three more years. Now that we have suffered for each other, and have found each other again, let us forget the past.'

Their whole being is screaming of danger. "Oh dear brother. Don't treat me like a fool just because I was gone...for a while. If you all haven't been cruel to me and my daughter... this will never happen. You all know that among the three of us, I was crowned as the King of the Faeries because I am capable when it comes to intellect and power. You all know that I am superior from you and Agape." Kwento nito at biglang sumeryoso ang mukha ni Agamemnon at lumarawan doon ang pait at sakit. "Hiningi ko sa inyo na palagpasin na lang ang laht dahil hindi ko kayang paslangin ang sarili kong anak...na siyang kadugo niyo rin. Ngunit naging matigas kayo. You've driven me to no choice. You turn you bac

Ang isa sa ginawang halimbawa rito ang sitwasyon ni Oedipus sa kwento Oedipus Rex na sinulat ni Sophocles. Oedipus tried to escape his fate by never returning to Corinth, the city where he grew up, and never seeing the people he thought were his parents again. Ironically, it was this action that led him to kill his real father Laius and to marry his mother Jocasta. The moral of Oedipus Rex is that it is useless to try to escape the power of fate. Oedipus's attempt to bypass the prophecy which states he will kill his father and sleep with his mother ironically leads to the fulfillment of these awful conditions.