Sophocles use of language allows his characters to show what is going on inside them to the reader. Many works of literature deal with what happens to a person physically and the resulting consequences. Many do deal with the issues that a person endures internally as a result of physical actions. In Sophocles work the events that take place in the human mind are the catalysts that drive on the story, the greatest events are …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…he dies, free of pain at last The Chorus is the voice of the reader showing the moral lesson that is learned from the long told story Sophocles is borrowing from. The change is Oedipus over his reign on earth from the cursed son of royalty to a hideous monster that brought forth a curse on his village the voyage that the reader takes in only In the mind of Oedipus not in his form.