Oedipus Journal #3

The story of Oedipus is being told from dialogue. The dialouge is between the chorus, Tiresias, Oedipus, Joscata, and many more. The point of view changes as each new character starts to speak. The narrative voice explains the actions that the characters take and the way in which they carry things out. The reader gets the know the characters through their reactions to situations and actions they take. For example, when Oedipus learns that he has married his mother and killed his father he is unbelievably upset with himself and the reader learns that he was caught off guard and would have never married his mother if he knew it was actually his mother. The author persuades us to like the characters by use of certain words that cannot have the reader but be sympathetic towards the different characters.