<Tab/>The Stranger and Oedipus the King are two literary works that were written approximately thousand years apart by different authors living in different time periods. The Stranger was written by Albert Camus who lived in post world war France. Oedipus was written Sophocles who lived in ancient Greek: although they were written by different authors of different background, time, and location. One could nevertheless find similar traits among the two …showed first 75 words of 1239 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1239 total…give him back his dignity by allowing him to die. On the other hand, Oedipus' own seemingly beneficial characteristic of determination inevitably causes his tragic fall from dignity and grace. These two tragedies remind us that even the bravest, those known throughout the world for their knowledge, are doomed if they set themselves up against the mystery of life itself, and if they try to force life to answer them, they are going to self-destruct.