Oedipus the King 3

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…see in his response to experience something magnificently heroic, an unwillingness to accept any shared understanding of experience, a refusal to compromise with any one else's answer as to what life is all about, a determination to push life beyond all simple ethical explanations and to discover for himself the full meaning of experience. If that desire leads to self-destruction, as it usually does, then that is the price the hero is willing to pay.