Throughout time, certain ideas just never seem to go away, as they remain in society. So as time goes on, many of the same themes and ideas are used to tell a story. For this reason, it can be said that these certain themes and ideas are universal in literature. One of these is in the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Creon asks “Did he look like a man in his right mind?” In this …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…by looking at a patient and running some easily deciphered tests. So when this topic comes up in many court cases, as it does in especially murders and felonies, it is very hard to have an exact answer to the question “Was he/she sane?” Someday, it might be possible to study this disease of the mind more closely. But until then, what it really means to be sane or insane will remain a mystery.