protagonist

this is role is so spontaneous and voluntary for him....repeating every dialogue ,every movement every expression like the first time ....a very deep rooted guilt has grown in his mind doing this character....every time he is on stage he ask in mind for forgiveness from Anne ...no...queen Jocasta....and for the last time i am performing the most tragic hero ever created

the excitement of doing Sophocles greatest tragedy was over by the first performance itself.....there after every stage was like a walk on the fire.....after knowing Anne was his mother in the first performance...he couldn't look into her eyes.....'i had sex with my own mother' the feeling strangles his mind every time....the line between Anne and Jocasta blurred after every performance...this stage will be the revelation...'i'll be a free man after this' he kept on saying during the play.....'i love Anne but i cant never lead a life with you"

with the end of every scene there riots in his mind.....he wanted to run free to some meadows plunging a dagger in his eyes....suffering for his sin....

the last scene is being performed.... Anne is mockingly hanged....but for his Jocasta is hanging dead in front of him.....like the son pleading for mercy in front of his mother ...he screamed holding the suspended feet of Anne "forgive me Jocasta forgive me please" he screamed....crying his heart out he fall on the stage.... Oedipus is being freed ...the shackles are being braked....but the brewing Oedipus complex inside him for Anne remained in his imprints....

the audience was clueless with the break down of the actor.....for them he has to continue suffering for his brutal sin....but the protagonist died moments ago....the bare man is crying loud blabbering.....along with the Greek maxim "no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead"

note:Oedipus is considered to be the greatest tragedy by Sophocles .the theme of the play is that Oedipus the unknowingly had to make Jocasta his queen,which is actually his true mother,at the end of the play he realizes his sin and punish himself for this .