He consults the Delphic oracle, which declares that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Sophocles' play opens with the city of Thebes stricken by a plague and its citizens begging Oedipus to find a remedy. Thus, the work begins with an interesting event from the middle of the story, while the supposed beginning is caught through flashback technique.
This is the narrative technique of beginning an epic or other fictional form by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action. Sophocles' play depicts the style Greek scholars refer to as in medias res.
Apart from the dynamics in the setting of Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are not to Blame and Sophocles' Oedipus of the King and the mythical pedagogy each evokes in the different traditions it represents, both plays are antonymous via their introductory styles.
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