Entering Oedipus Rex for this post, what I found in Oedipus Rex about ages of man is in the deadly sphinx’s riddle. Here, there are three ages of man mentioned which Oedipus answered correctly. He answered as a baby he crawls on all fours, then as a man he walks erect, then as an old man he uses a cane. While in William Butler Yeats’ poem, ‘Four Ages of Man’ talks about life of human as some kind of struggle.
In William Shakespeare’s play, ‘As You Like It’, he mentioned about seven stages of man which are infant, childhood, lover, soldier, justice, old age, and death. In the play, it shows that stages of man or life of a human is like a process.
Sum all this up, in my opinion, different people has different perception in perceiving life. But the basic is just the same. We play numerous roles in life starting from born to death. As a child, as an adult, and as an older person in society. The most important thing is, we should not took our life for granted.
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Overall, from what auni's said in her blog, what I can said is theater or play is a live performances that have a lot of reflection in our life, for example in how we perceive life, and how we experiencing the changes that happened in our life. All plays by William Shakespeare and Sophocles got a lot of reflection in life and it presented beautifully by them.Besides that it also shows human depends on oracle or prophecies to lead their future and finally sometimes the prophecies will brings benefit to them and also can be destructive to them. From of all the play, it presents the tragic flaw of someone.
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