Oedipus Rex is one of the stories that I will appreciate. At first, I was curious about the whole play because of what I read and search from the internet. But when I started watching the story being acted on the play which was directed by Tony Mabesa, I started to appreciate more the story more because you can understand clearly the story now. The whole play was done so smoothly and with precision from every detail including the play itself, props, sounds and lighting. The actors and actresses who played the role of each characters performed their every roles very well that they deserved the every overwhelming applaud from each of the audiences. They delivered the lines very well and they performed naturally as if they were the real characters from the story and when the play began to start I focused my attention at the play for me to fully understand the whole story.

The story was all about Oedipus the king also called Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus Rex. To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold, it was said that the child born to him will be the one who will slay him and will marry her mother queen Jocasta. And the oracle was true. Oedipus without knowing, the man whom he killed was his father Laius and whom she married was his own mother Queen Jocasta. What I love most in this story is that, Oedipus did not deny the fact that he was the man who slew his father, he was the one who keeps on asking the shepherds who witness to the murder of King Liaus and when everything has been revealed, At the end of the story, Jocasta in her horror hangs herself and Oedipus stabs out his eyes. Then he imposes on himself the penalty of exile which he had promised for the murderer of Laius.

The tragic story of Oedipus Rex was meant to serve as a lesson to others. This lesson was that the punishment visited on the ruler was a sort of proof that the gods did not give special favor to the noble people and that the rules applied to everyone. But if we are to talk about the play, it tells the audience that both fate and free will exist inside each character. However, the free will that people have is only up to a point inside the fate. In other words, people can assert free will to make minor choices and follow paths in life. That free will does not change a person’s fate. The book of one’s life has been written and while people can change the individual adventures on the pages themselves, the milestones and the endings will be the same. All three characters-Oedipus, Jocasta, and King Lauis show the reader that fate does control lives.

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