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A 6 page paper which examines how both playwrights treat the husband and wife by exploring similarities and fundamental differences. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the times in which the playwright lived in terms of literary style and prevailing social attitudes. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that when French playwright Jean Cocteau
reconsidered the story of Oedipus and Jocasta in the twentieth century, while he essentially remained true to the story itself, there would be differences in the storytelling. Times had
changed - the world had become humbled by a catastrophic war - and philosophy was less focused on the acquisition of knowledge than it was on questioning the extent of
an individuals free will in choosing his or her own path. In Sophocles Oedipus the King, the play opens with Oedipus already the beleaguered ruler of Thebes who is grappling
with the consequences of a mysterious plague that has targeted his people. He is an intelligent and compassionate man who is flawed by a pride that has blinded his
sensibilities. For it is Oedipuss single-minded desire to uncover the reasons why the gods showered his people with pestilence that sealed his tragic fate. It was Oedipuss intellect
that had secured him the throne as he successfully solved the riddle of the Sphinx. However, in Cocteaus The Infernal Machine (La Machine Infernale), Oedipus is a man of
great looks with an ego to match, but of what could best be described as limited intelligence. Instead of relying upon his wits to solve the riddle of the
Sphinx, in this work, the Sphinx is portrayed as a girl who seeks to be liberated from the powerful control of the god Anubis. When she falls in love
with the handsome and charming Oedipus, she elects to tell him the riddle, which is clearly beyond his limited powers of reason. Oedipus, as characterized by Sophocles, occupies center
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