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Oedipus Rex vs. Paranoid Android

In Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King, Sophocles seizes every opportunity to exploit the dramatic irony of the willingness to ignore the painful truth and the song ‘Paranoid Android’ by Radiohead demonstrates that same approach to truth in its lyrics. The first example of Oedipus’ willingness to ignore the painful truth takes place when Jocasta says that she was told that Laius was killed by “strangers,� whereas Oedipus knows that he acted alone when he killed a man in similar circumstances. Both Oedipus and Jocasta act as though the servant’s story of Laius’ death is unquestionable history. Both Oedipus and Jocasta cannot face the possibility of what it would mean if the servant were wrong. This might be why Jocasta feels she can tell Oedipus of the prophecy that her son would kill his father, and Oedipus can tell her about the similar prophecy given him by an oracle (lines 867–875), and neither feels compelled to remark on......

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