Reflection 1-27-14

Last week we continued to read Oedipus Rex and talk about our Tragic Hero project. My group for the Tragic Hero project will probably be doing the movie Into the Wild. Into the Wild is about a man who is kicked out of society and decides to hike from Atlanta to Alaska, where (spoiler alert) he is later found dead. This is the perfect tragic hero movie because he starts as a smart college grad, then finishes as a nobody who didn't live a "full" life. I have now finished Oedipus Rex and realized just how tragic Oedipus and his Hubris truly is. His pride and arrogance lead to his emanate downfall and demise. He loses himself mentally and stabs his own eyes out due to his grief, regret, and confusion. He discovers that he committed the murder that cursed his kingdom and married and had children with his own mother. The final line says how he could no longer bear the pain of a mortal and passed on mortality. That is a quick summary of what I learned/read last week.