The Truth

   The past, present, and future have an enormous affect on the truth, and can lead us to the truth. The past can teach you things, the present can determine what your truth may be, and the future can motivate your truth.
   Being that the past has already happened, it can teach you things as you look back on what has been done. Once new things are learned there is a better possibly of the truth being uncovered. For example, when you are having a conversation with someone, you may not be able to connect the dots at the one, but later you my recognize many important aspects of things that were said, and the truth can be revealed. Also, the past can not be undone so the things in the past are set in stone, so once something is done ... there is no going back and that IS your truth.
   The present can lead us to the truth, because everything we do has the ability to be our truth. Everything you do in this moment is important to what the truth may be. Also the present can reveal the truth because the present is a combination of prior knowledge and very previous knowledge acquired as well.
   The future can reveal your truth, because it is what your life will be. For Oedipus, being that the killer of the king is said to soon be murdered, that can reveal that Oedipus will be killed.

Oedipus !

           In these few pages, Oedipus is blind of his truth. As the readers we know that that the Oracle predicted that Oedipus would kill his father. So the father of Oedipus, King Liaus, sent him away to avoid their fate . As Oedipus grew in a different family, he stills ages to kill his father ... without knowing his father was the king of the town he would once be the king of.

           I feel that this dramatic irony is the core of this story. Every fact, and component of the story is based on the secrets within the story that the audience is aware of . Every twist and turn has some sort of affect on something else in the story and it has a ripple affect.

           The fact that Oedipus seems to have a strong disgust toward the killer of the towns king , is every amusing it personally. In my opinion I feel that if Oedipus knew he had recently killed a man, that he should have been able to connect the dots. Mostly likely I feel this way, because I know the truth. Being that this story has so much dramatic irony, I am not sure.

    Personally I feel know the truth, that the characters don't know , can blind the reader from exploring all meaning and emotions that can come of the true story . In this story I notice that the purpose of this story is to represent the power of fate, and how fate is inevitable.