The Essential Questions of Life

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For the past three weeks, I have been reading The Oedipus Cycle, which was written by Sophocles.This book contains three plays revolving around the life of Oedipus, a man whose life was filled with tragedies. After reading these plays, I came up with three essential questions:

1) Do we always want to find out the truth?

2) Why do bad things happen to good/innocent people?

3) Who decides what is right and wrong?

Since these questions may seem broad right now, let’s go in depth.

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