Research Paper on a myth based book or a movie (preferably a movie)
OEDIPUS COMPLEX
The drama of King Oedipus and Sophocle is one with great lesson to draw from. Laius king of Thebes has an oracle warning him of still born baby being his murderer and taking his wife. This result in exposition of the child but despite this, the oracle comes to fulfillment; when Oedipus meets Laius and kills him in a sudden quarrel. For a full fulfillment of this oracle, the Thebans gave Jocasta to Oedipus to marry and the oracle is fully realized to be fulfilled. Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: ***Sophocles Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: ***lessons Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: ***complete fulfilment perhaps?
A lesson is drawn from this however, that there is need for submission to divine will and the acknowledgement of human beings to their inability in comparison with the supreme power of the gods. Lesson of morality is put forward too through the repercussions brought to Oedipus and the Thebans on the issue. A plague strikes and the only solution to it is to drive out Oedipus from the land. This teaches something on acceptable morality. Oedipus marries his mother Jocasta and this is incest, and because of this the punishment comes on him and the Thebans. The lesson drawn is for people to uphold the acceptable codes of morality and conducts in the society such as abstaining from sexual impurity. Oedipus hates his father and kills him, and all the problems come to him as a result. Lesson on obedience and submission to parents is brought about. Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: This is NOT Freud’s reading of the myth. He refutes precisely this traditional view of the myth of Oedipus. He argues that rather than submitting ourselves to the divine will, we should try to recognize our unconscious desires. Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: Again, this is not a Freudian lesson. Comment by Dipanjan Maitra: Certainly not.