"Swollen Feet"

Although I have read this story before, I still find it interesting and of course ridiculously amusing. Oedipus plays as the cocky leader and, he takes the city’s plague under account in order to make the citizens happy. In doing so he needs to purge the murderer of king Laius. Funny thing is this story follows the aspect of dramatic irony. From the beginning, the audience finds the story to be oblivious, yet we need to be in the state of willful disbelief, and allow ourselves to follow the plot of the story and find that in the end, Oedipus is indeed the murderer. It’s kind of like the CSI shows. I’ve been hooked on the CSI: Las Vegas. The outline of the story starts out as “who is the murderer?” and all these sequence of events lead to the obvious ending. Or so we think…dun dun dun!

In class, there was discussion about how the Oedipus was faced with fate and he was eventually going to end up at how the oracle’s “vision” expected it to be. Although Oedipus was oblivious at himself, playing the role as the king of the city, I believe he made a morally great decision in attempting to solve the plague of the city. Even though the prophet told Oedipus that he doesn’t need or want to know the truth of his parenthood, I think that’s a situation that most people may not be able to resist. Every time a close friend says something like “Oh! You don’t wanna know,” I can’t resist, but keep insisting on finding out what it is that I don’t want to know. The prophet still was granted the choice to tell or not to tell Oedipus his knowledge, yet he did. If he chooses the path on not telling Oedipus, would Oedipus eventually find out the ugly truth of his being? Perhaps, only because it was fate, but if this was the case, then the story would take longer than the 24 hour story time line.

In The Incredibles, when Frozone had two conflicting responsibilities, he still manages to counterbalance each responsibility. He knows it his grand duty to attend both saving the day and his wife, yet again, the wife should know that although she plays the utter importance in her husband’s life, she needs to remember his responsibilities and condone him for the greater good. Once he saves the day, he shall stroll along his path of ice and attend to his majestic woman. If I were faced with the duty to help save other lives versus attending to my significant other, I would need to take action and face the fact that I could be an INCREDIBLE J Or just simply justify both aspects to be equally important. The question is which would be accomplished first.

Maybe another way of thinking about the situation would be comparing or considering circumstances through a domino effect. If Frozone needs to save the day, in order to make the citizens happy and then go safely home afterwards to make his lady happy, then gosh darn, he better go save the day first and come home as soon as possible to attend his lovely woman. Everyone, or mostly everyone, experience these excruciating conflicts every day. Given several choices to choose from staying home to study for an exam or to go on a date with a boyfriend/girlfriend in order to make them happy are conflicting responsibilities that we may face every day. Having the mobility to execute and prioritize duties all depends on the character of the person. For the record though, if I were put in Mrs. Frozone’s Wife’s shoes, I would say “The world could wait, you need to attend to me first.” I think any wife may feel that way, maybe the exception of military wives....

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