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In these three plays, Sophocles dramatizes the pain inflicted upon Oedipus and his family, the royal house of Thebes. I loved the confrontation with and riddles of the Sphinx. I sorrowed at the ending, in which Oedipus wanders blinded through the desert. I really enjoyed these plays. They are timeless.
I think I may have been the only high schooler in my city to enjoy this and the only college freshman literature student to want to read it, but I've always cherished Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
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