SOMETHING

“It’s like rain on your wedding day. It’s the free ride and you’ve already paid. It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?” These are lyrics from a popular song titled Ironic. Have you ever stopped to think how ironic life is? Maybe you don’t even know what irony is. Irony is defined in Webster’s as “incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.” Oedipus’ life, in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, is the epitome of irony. Even though the song Ironic was written just a few years ago, I think that the song could have been Oedipus’ theme song. I am going to take you on a journey through Oedipus’ life and demonstrate how different events in his life correspond symbolically to each scenario of this song. Oedipus ironic marriage is “like rain on your wedding day.” His “free ride” was to be a ruler, but he “already paid” by taking another throne. In addition we see ma...