In life people tend to react before thinking, and often times they have to suffer damaging consequences due to their actions. Most times damages that one may cause is irreversible, and can have an everlasting effect on not just themselves, but others as well. The realization of what has been done can be too much to handle. Mrs. Wright and Oedipus the King both were unable to control their emotions to situations in their lives, which in turn, incurred damaging consequences. In the play Trifles written by (Susan Glaspell) and Oedipus the King written by (Sophocles) , the characters Mrs. Wright and Oedipus display uncontrollable emotions, which leads to loss of freedom, loss of well-being, and the loss of a significant other. Look for: verb-t…show more content… In the play Trifles (Glaspell), and Oedipus the King (Sophocles), Mrs. Wright and Oedipus loses their well-being due to uncontrollable emotions. Mrs. Wright marries her husband, but she soon loses site of all the important things that makes her, the person everyone has known her to be. Mrs. Hale states, “I heard she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir” (1370). Mrs. Wright present self does not reflect herself from 30 years ago. The fact that Mrs. Wright cannot control the emotions that she feels, makes her lose her inner-self and lose her overall well-being. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus loses his well-being also, but in a different manner. Oedipus sets out to free himself of the news he obtains from the oracle of Delphi, who informs him he will murder his father and sleep with his mother, but unfortunately the fate that he is running from, soon is proven to be his destiny. The shepherd confirms everything by telling Oedipus, “If you are the man he says you are, believe me, you were born for pain” (1305). Oedipus is distraught and confused, because everything he has ever known to be true, is in fact a lie. Which, makes Oedipus lose his well-being. “I have been saved for something great and terrible, something strange. Well let my destiny come and take me on its way!” (1595) . Look for: ap, pro-agr, sv-agr, sp, n, use of commas,