Oedipus rex by Sophocles

        In the story of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a satisfactory natured person that has dreadful judgment and frailty. Oedipus makes a few bad decisions and is condemned to profound suffering because of his pride. I agree with Aristotle that he brings it each(prenominal) on to himself because of his own personal pride.         One daytime Oedipus finds blackguard up that there is a prophecy that depicts him killing his get and marrying his mother. The prophecy may have been proven untrue if he wouldnt have put himself on such a amply pedestal. It all started one day when he met up with superpower Laius:          Seated in it. The groom confidential information the horses                   strained me off the road at his lords command;                   only if as this charioteer lurched over towards me                   I struck him in my rage...I killed him (1.2.764-772).          Oedipus met the King Laius on a bridge and was too proud to let him fall in first, and then the King pushed him out of the way. In a conform to of rage, Oedipus killed him. All the while, an former(a) man, Teiresias, knew that it was King Laius that Oedipus had killed. Oedipus didnt even know that it was King Laius that he killed. In the future, when Teiresias tries to induce Oedipus that he is the killer, Oedipus turns him away and calls him a prevaricator and blames it all on him:                   And Ill specialise you what I think:                  You think it, you had it done, you all but                  Killed him with your own reach: if you had eyes,                  Id say that the umbrage was yours, and yours alone.                   !                                             (1.2.331-334) Teiresius is a blind prophet, and it is possible that if Oedipus... If you urgency to get a full essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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