The Oedipus Cycle is a trilogy of Ancient Greek tragedies by Sophocles. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus tries to escape from a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. He kills a man (unknowingly his father) and marries the queen, his mother. In Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus dies and his sons begin to fight. In Antigone, Oedipus' daughter, Antigone, is sentenced to death by Creon for burying her traitorous brother inside the city. Before Creon can rethink his decision, Antigone commits suicide.
In The Road the father and son are cut off from their home civilization and experience a feeling of exile because of it Their exile proves both alienating and enriching two essential elements of literary exile Alienation is the state of being isolated or viewing the world from an objective standpoint The father and son are forced to alienate themselves from the world because of its innate evil As the boy grows older with this point of view he comes to know the world as predominantly evil The is