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The play "Oedipus Rex" is a very full and lively one to say
the least. Everything a reader could ask for is included in this
play. There is excitement, suspense, happiness, sorrow, and
much more. Truth is the main theme of the play. Oedipus
cannot accept the truth as it comes to him or even where it
comes from. He is blinded in his own life, trying to ignore the
truth of his life. Oedipus will find out that truth is truth, it is
rock solid.
The story is mainly about a young man named Oedipus who
is trying to find out more knowledge than he can handle. The
story starts off by telling us that Oedipus has seen his moira,
his fate, and finds out that in the future he will end up killing
his father and marrying his mother. Thinking that his mother
and father were Polybos and Merope, the only parents he
knew, he ran away from home and went far away so he
could change his fate and not end up harming his family.
Oedipus will later find out that he cannot change fate
because......

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