The play “Oedipus Rex” written by Sophocles is a very tragic one. The story begins with tragedy and ends with disaster. It was said that Oedipus Rex parents had received a message from Tyresias the blind prophet who had been told by the God’s that Oedipus Rex would kill his father and marry his mother. After this horrible prophecy the King and Queen decided to kill his son. Years later a new prince of Corinth arrives. The original prince was killed in a road that meets. Throughout the play there is a lot of foreshadowing. It is not till the end of the play that we begin to realize that Oedipus Rex was never killed and he had murdered his father and slept with his mother. This story makes it as if “knowing too much is always bad.”
In my particular case I would rather always know the truth rather then be lied to. I think that the truth is always better then a lie. Knowing too much can never us hurt us because knowing too little can also cause the same amount of pain. There are those who of course would rather be lied to their entire lives but personally I am not one of those. At the end of the day the truth will be known one way or another and its always better to know sooner than later.
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