The perception of Life, that is what the authors said in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, The Four Ages of Man by William Butler Yeats and As You Like it by William Shakespeare. In the poem (The Four Ages of Man), Yeats divided a man’s age in to 4 stages. Shakespeare divided a man’s age into seven stages in his drama. As for Oedipus Rex, the riddle that mentioned in the play divided man into 3 stages. Yet, in this play, the life of a man is some sort of a tool that God used to fill up their free times. I do not know whether is it proper for me to say that, but I do think that God is playing with Oedipus’ fate. Oedipus is wise, but he could not solve the unfortunate fate that given by the God for him. Man could not run away from their fate and death. These 3 literature works do mention about the stage of becoming old. People will suffer from sickness and one day we will be dead.
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On whether the life of a man is some sort of a tool used by God to fill up their free time is relevant or not, I could not be so sure of that. You may say god is playing with Oedipus’s fate, yet seeing it in another perspective, it was Oedipus who chooses to walk the road the way he wanted it himself. He was the one insisted on finding out his true identity. Although his wife, Iocaste begs him not to, Oedipus continues on the investigation of his own self. Even the shepherd pleads “For God’s love, my King, do not ask me any more!”. However, due to Oedipus’s ignorance, he managed to reveal of the truth which causes his own tragic flaw. Hence, in my humble opinion for this case, I think Oedipus was the one who is playing with his own fate would be more applicable. Nevertheless, in all, it is true that people will depart from this life one day as it is fated.
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