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Across the texts, there are recurring elements and images of weapons and items that inflict pain. Each playwright uses weaponry and the symbolic nature that tails each to emphasize a different aspect of pain. Sophocles uses daggers and brooches to emphasize internal pain. Ibsen uses a gun to emphasize social struggle. Finally Lorca uses knives to emphasize deceit. These settings all correlate with the rising and falling schools of thought. In Oedipus, he stabs out his eyes with a brooch. The symbol of a brooch, is one that keeps things together. This connotation can be tied to the relationship that Oedipus carries with his family. Essentially, Sophocles uses the brooch as a symbol, holding family ties together, so that Oedipus could metaphorically see what he did to his father, ultimately, creating an everlasting tie that holds that family together. Then Ibsen uses a similar motif in the motif of a gun.
Name: Hiro Nukaga
