What Is Knox's Fear Of The Modern Man Who Has Caught In A Trap

Initially, Knox claims modern society’s fear of unknowingly stumbling into a trap designed by fate and its lack of control over the future as the reasons for modern society’s continued interest in Sophocles’ Oedipus. Moreover, the modern man seems to have developed an incessant fear of the outcome of the unknown future. Knox illuminates this matter when he writes, “Sophocles has served modern man and his haunted sense of being caught in a trap...that every step we take forward on what we think is the road of progress may really be a step toward a foreordained rendezvous with disaster” (133). Through this passage Knox connects man’s fear of the uncharted future potentially leading to tragedy to his unceasing attraction to Sophocles’ Oedipus