Sex_Sells

Sex Sells SEX SELLS Writer’s Tool Unchanged from Sophocles to Present The purpose of this paper is to show a common writing angle that has been use by writers throughout time to sell their works. The word sex will perk-up anyone’s ears! So it is obvious that throughout time writers of all types have used sex to get readers/viewers attention. As one of the earliest playwrights, Sophocles knew what it would take to get the attention of his ancient Greek audiences, and it isn’t any wonder that it is this same element that has been used throughout time and even today by writers to get reader’s attention. As a result the storylines are parallel; in that Sophocles’ drama King Oedipus the advertisement would probably mirror that of today’s popular daytime TV talk show dramas: I accidentally murdered my father, married my mother and got her pregnant. So famous is Oedipus and his demented sexual situation, renowned doctor of psychiatry Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams wrote, “Modern authors have therefore sought to achieve a similar tragic effect by expressing the same conflict in stories of their own invention. If the Oedipus Rex is capable of moving a modern reader or playgoer no sex, one, time, sexual, same, man, attention, about, through, student, sophocles, shakespeare, oedipus, modern, between, another, wrote, writers, wife, tv, throughout, stories, son, show, pitiful, persons, parent, normal, mother, freud, far, example, effect, conflict, capable