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I'm still marking essays. It's awful and incessant and exhausting; my eyes are crossed and my ankles are swelling. Slightly woozy as I am, I'm not sure whether to be delighted or appalled by the following consideration of Oedipus Rex, quoted verbatim.

Relationships between family is a main theme in Sophicheles plays, and he could be saying that relationships are a key factor in any ideal life. However as we know the relationship with this family was not as normal as others in our modern society. This is partly because of the fact that the gods have cursed Oedipus and said that he will murder his father and marry his mother. This is not an ideal way of living, and it is possible that Sophocles being the master he is trying to express the importance of family in having an ideal life. This could be the message he is trying to express by making Oedipus marry his mother and kill his father.

I've been pulling up students who quote at length without exegesis but reserve the right to do so myself. I have a feeling it might be Mother's Day tomorrow and anyway, current affairs make incest jokes even more risky than usual.