Oedipus vs
Oedipus vs. societyDuring Greek times, Oedipus committed the worst crime by marrying his mother and killing his father. The Greeks never looked down upon any criminal like they would look down upon someone who went against their family.
If one refers to the 1970's film, The Godfather, the Corleone family was very strict on family morals and they as well as the Greeks considered the family to be everything and if one went against the family it was punishable by death.
In today's society the family has lost some importance and peoples morals toward their kin have begun to decrease in the last few years. Now one sees parents beating their children and possibly killing them. Kids' killing their parents has become a new trend. The Menendez brothers killed both of their parents and thought nothing of it because the media made them stars. When one walks into a bathroom or down the school hall, they will either see or hear the word "motherfucker", but many...
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