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Edipo Guey (Commentary)

Rubén Eduardo Sánchez Zupo

Universidad del Valle de México
Bicultural High School
Literature II
Vazquez Rosas Fernando Emmanuel
May 30th, 2023

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 Edipo Guey

In class we read a comedy about “Oedipus King”, it was in spanish and I must say… I liked it
a lot, I didn’t expect it to be so light to read. the thing with tragedies or old literature in
general it’s that sometimes you have to read them in specific moments because they tend to
be a bit mentally demanding (due to the amount of information they present to you), however
I liked that it keeps the original story of “Oedipus king” and makes it funny and not only that
but makes it brief and simple (I like the jokes, they felt modern and fit surprisingly well). The
Comedy itself reminded me a bit of two things: The first one being “Malcolm in the middle”
because of how they handle flashbacks, the second one was “Megamind” because of the
whole “I guess you wonder how I got here :D” and because I find it funny how in both
megaming and this comedy you have a character (the protagonist) who is supposed to be a
really important and even scary figure to others, but ends up being a dork or just a
clumsy/messy person in general who no one takes seriously (and in the case of Oedipus he is
kind of unaware of what’s happening to him).
Something I find interesting is that even though the story doesn’t take itself too seriously, I
was surprised to see that it got a bit serious and a bit dark towards the end; I mean the play
has double meaning jokes and even sexual jokes and then Aristotles just says “oh no she died,
anyway take your eyes out”. Something that I loved was how out of nowhere the character
that is portrayed like a drunktard the whole play (“Empédocles”) just says one of the best
speeches I’ve heard in a while, what a shame no one understood him, and after that the small
monologue that Oedipus says, it feels as something I would hear in a HBO series or when a
character in certain type of anime talks about how they see society or the human mind.

Something I totally loved was how everyone was so insistent with the whole “Take your eyes
out” thing, I don’t know but it feels so random, just imagine talking to someone you know
and out of nowhere you say “oh, by the way please take your eyes out”; It actually reminds
me of an episode in south park were Stan (I think) talks to a show that cells gems (rings,
collars, etc.) and just says to the presenter “kill yourself” (because he scams old people) and
after that you just hear how elderly people call him just to tell him “kill yourself” I think there
is even a old man who says “you too scared to do it, you don’t have the Balls” and there is
this lady that asks about some peridot rings and then just says “They look good on your dead
body, why don’t you kill yourself?” and well… He did (and it was really funny, I’m sorry

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what can I say it just felt so random to encounter that on Tik Tok at 11 PM)
Overall I think it was a great play, I really liked the characters (Safo using modern flirting
techniques was funny), how the story played out and most of all, how they managed to have
the same ending as the original work without feeling out of place (I liked the whole, we were
working together against you the whole time) . It was a really nice reading, I like that we
have been reading comedies in class (The one from today “Odio a los Putos Mexicano” I was
trying not to laugh when I heard Zavala say the finger thing, it just feels so out of character
for him that it’s hilarious) I hope that we can at least read one more.