Incest is an important thematic element and plot device in literature, with famous early examples such as Sophocles ' classic Oedipus Rex, a tragedy in which the title character unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother. [1] It occurs in medieval literature, [2] both explicitly, as related by denizens of Hell in Dante 's Inferno, and. 7 mai 2021 · The second Oscar-winning mom on the list! Patricia Arquette took home an Academy Award for this quiet Richard Linklater film in which she plays the mother of a son slowly growing up before her.