Point of View/Characters
In Oedipus The King Sopheocles seems to use 3rd person narration throughout the first part of the play. By using this 3rd person perspective it shows how the characters are speaking indirectly to the audience but not to each other. Using 3rd person speaker there doesn't seem to be a narrative voice to it in the background. It's just blunt straightforward text between the people who are talking to one another. In the first part of the play the characters get to know a little bit about each character who show up. Each are presented in a different way. One may be introduced through dialect of a character who describe them or they just up and one must assume who the character is and the main role they play throughout the play. Through the tone that each character presents I think that is how the author tries to convey them to us on whether we should like or not like them. Depending on our first impression of them, if we decide to like or hate them that is completely our opinion due to the context of the book. What the author writes and how we may interpret it, one person may like, for example, Oedipus as being King and others may say why is Oedipus King? I don't even like him the way the author is trying to convey him.
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