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.
The reason why people risk their lives to fight against the world's super power was because of the reason that they want to have their freedom and to be able to get and achieve the rights in which they think that they truly deserves.
