Slavery was THE great debate of the 1850's as was the question of continuing a union that threatened the lives and property of the South. It caused Lincoln's election in 1860 and fueled the movement to secession and war. Slavery was the dividing point over which there was a limit to the compromises that could be effected. It clearly drove the decade as it had shaped the whole century.
In the Oedipus the King, in some cases hilariously inhumane or whimsical, now and then keen, now and again sensational, the Chorus responds to the occasion in front of an audience. The Chorus' responses can be lessons in how the gathering of people ought to decipher what it is seeing, or how it ought not to translate what it is seeing.
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The reason why world war 1 was so significant is beacuse was one of the great watersheds of the 20th century.
