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    Oedipus Rex is a famous work by Sophocles due to its well-written plot twists and cultural relevance. The story follows the tragic hero Oedipus who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Readers are drawn to analyze the story through historical, psychological, and mimetic literary criticisms. A historical analysis examines when the story took place and was written. A psychological analysis considers the mental states of characters like Oedipus' breakdown. A mimetic analysis interprets symbolic words, images, and texts like Oedipus defeating the sphinx representing heroism.

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    Oedipus Rex is a famous work by Sophocles due to its well-written plot twists and cultural relevance. The story follows the tragic hero Oedipus who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Readers are drawn to analyze the story through historical, psychological, and mimetic literary criticisms. A historical analysis examines when the story took place and was written. A psychological analysis considers the mental states of characters like Oedipus' breakdown. A mimetic analysis interprets symbolic words, images, and texts like Oedipus defeating the sphinx representing heroism.

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    Oedipus Rex is a famous work by Sophocles due to its well-written plot twists and cultural relevance. The story follows the tragic hero Oedipus who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Readers are drawn to analyze the story through historical, psychological, and mimetic literary criticisms. A historical analysis examines when the story took place and was written. A psychological analysis considers the mental states of characters like Oedipus' breakdown. A mimetic analysis interprets symbolic words, images, and texts like Oedipus defeating the sphinx representing heroism.

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    QUIZ 3 GED117

    Oedipus rex is one of the most famous and well-refined works of Sophocles due to its outstanding
    writing of the story, the progressions, plots, and twist, and the cultural involvement of the story is what
    also made it famous that got the attention of the readers. Moreover, based on how the majority of the
    readers view Oedipus, Oedipus is featured as a tragic hero who have fallen due to his actions which the
    Greek gods like apollo have prophesized. The story has shown many tragic scenes in the stories and
    different ethics that are related to the people’s beliefs about the Greek gods and the first concept of
    that is the term called prophecy where people in Greece believe that the fate of one’s person has
    already been written before they were even born. An example of that is when one of the characters told
    Jocasta and King Laius that their son will kill his father and marry his own mother the moment when that
    child was born and that is Oedipus. This shows many different historical and cultural events that
    happened in the story.

    Furthermore, based on my analysis of the story of Oedipus Rex the one Literary criticism or approach
    that I think is necessary for the story is Historical criticism. Why? Because of the way we can look at it we
    can also look on how it was written and what is the message of the story. However, I used a historical
    approach because I didn’t just solely base on how Sophocles wrote his story but I also based on the
    timeline era of the story of his works and when those significant events happen and when was the book
    was written back on 420BC. The second literary criticism that was used was the psychological criticism or
    approach because I think we can also analyze the message behind those events that happened in the
    story or the psychological state of a character. Because based on the story when Oedipus has reached
    the truth about his origin and the fulfillment of the prophecy he had a psychological breakdown that
    causes him to stab his own eyes after finding out that her wife which is basically her mother Jocasta
    killed herself.

    The last literary approach that I think we can use mimetic criticism. Because we can also analyze the
    meaning of wording, images, and texts of the story and the concept of the memetic approach is to
    interpret texts that are written in one’s work. An example of that is the image that is shown where
    Oedipus defeated the sphinx by answering her question correctly and saved the city of Thebes which
    symbolizes heroism. Another example is when Oedipus trying to avoid the truth which symbolizes
    blindness and arrogance.

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