Comparison between Oedipus Rex and The Wogboy

Modern audiences, especially young people, would have difficulty with the issues and dramatic conventions portrayed in Oedipus Rex, but would have no difficulties with The Wogboy. A major reason supporting this statement are the differing means of presentation employed to portray issues and conventions. The efficient use of film over prose, or the original play, is already an attractive form of presentation for the contemporary audience, especially the younger audience of today. The form used …

…being portrayed, are ironically, the same. <Tab/>Modern audiences, especially young people, would have difficulty with the issues and dramatic conventions portrayed in Oedipus Rex, but would have no difficulties with The Wogboy because of the use of a more appealing text type, contemporary language and jargon and because the issues are portrayed in circumstances and situations which are considered normal and are easier to accept by the modern audience today.