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This 6 page paper examines two works Everything that Rises Must Converge and Oedipus Rex to explore self-discovery and identity. Some quotes are provided. Bibliography cites 6 sources.
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being thinks he or she knows who they are. They often find that they are sadly mistaken. Still, through the many phases of development-childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, old
age-there are different things that come to the forefront. New ideas surface as do new realizations. An individual begins to lose his or her shell, or the ego, and find
that they are part of a larger human pool of individuals. A recent television reality show saw a brother and sister married. Why? They did not know they were
related. It was only after the discovery of an affair that they found out they had the same father. It was after many years that the truth became known. While
a very unusual story, this is not an unusual theme and in fact found in the well known fictitious tale, Oedipus Rex. In this tragic story, Oedipus unknowingly marries his
own biological mother. It todays world, it is not uncommon for confusion to reign as far as biology is concerned. A parent may not be known to a child
as they may have given that child up for adoption, donated sperm or egg, acted only as a surrogate parent, have been artificially inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had
a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process of self-discovery is finding out ones origin. Where someone comes from biologically and
geographically has meaning in the process of discovering the self. While higher level processes that go to ideation about philosophy and so forth enters the picture, and renders the physical
body almost irrelevant, there is on another level an importance attached to DNA and personal history. That is why Oedipus Rex is such an interesting and enlightening tale. The story
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