Body Naturalism In Oedipus The King

The awakening of the body natural in the king belies with his identity of his body political, and distorts his whole sense of existence. This raises a question, of rather or not a king is born with two bodies while one body is dominant and the other inactivated, or does he actively distance himself from the beginning from the body natural? If the king deliberately dissociates himself from the body natural, and the body natural continues to exist- although in a passive way- this indicates that the two exist and can be awaken or held off, implying that they are both experienced on the same surface, the third body as a

If the body political and the body natural are two bodies which exist in a third body or in a container shaped body, then I shall say that the third body is the “space” where “rays from a source of light are cut off by an interposed opaque body”. The two other bodies cast rays of light, and thus the third body is seen as “partial darkness or obscurity within a part of space”. This means that when the body political and body natural cease to exist in Richard, the darkness of the shadow itself, which is the third body, is no longer visible, because it’s disclosing is relied on the existence of the other two bodies. Nonetheless, just because the body of the shadow is not visible, it still exists. It is impossible to perceive it through light or darkness since the two other bodies are the only things that cast rays of light on it- which now no longer exist- but it is plausible to address it and perceive it as something that now lies beyond our empirical knowledge and