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Jiang reinforces the free-will point with Oedipus, saying prophecy turns human beings into pawns of a prewritten game.
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Oedipus
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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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Jiang introduces Sophocles through the Oedipus trilogy and narrates Oedipus as a man whose attempt to escape prophecy helps fulfill it.
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Jiang says society works when the old give way to the young; the Oresteia ends well because old gods yield, while the Oedipus trilogy ends in tragedy because an old king refuses.
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"...will right because if if you remember the story of um oedipus rex right he was told uh his father was told uh your..."
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"thebes so this um so that your free will right you can choose whatever you want it's hampered by these prophecies because then you're..."
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"...all going to be tragic the classic that classic case is Oedipus okay Oedipus is a man who killed his father and married his..."
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"he blinds himself and then he goes into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it..."
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"...okay? So, Sophocles wrote many plays. His most famous is the Oedipus Trilogy, okay? Oedipus Trilogy. Now, you may have heard of the Oedipus..."
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"...presents the baby to the king, and the king names him Oedipus. And Oedipus grows up to the point to be a very strong,..."
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"...are cursed to kill your father and marry your mother. So Oedipus freaks out and says, I don't want to do that. I don't..."
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"So Oedipus volunteers to challenge the Sphinx to a duel. And the Sphinx asks Oedipus a riddle. If Oedipus can get it right, the..."
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"...of incest. So the gods are angry at you. So what Oedipus does is, he blinds himself, and he exiles himself, okay? To die..."
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"...the new gods who bring justice into the world. Okay? The Oedipus trilogy ends in tragedy because the old king refuses to give way..."
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"...and, and, and, and, and, the example of course is the Oedipus Rex tragedy, where Oedipus, regardless of his character, regardless of what, what..."
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"...it, if Tiresias, the fortune tellers, didn't provide these fortunes, then Oedipus would not have had the tragedy that he had. He was forced..."
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