Oedipus The King Free Will Essay
Which character exhibits the highest degree of remorse?
(Prometheus & Oedipus) Everybody has to be responsible for what they have done, and the inescapable fate would give a rise to a tragic ending. Compare to different tragedies, some of them would exhibit more remorse from audience about its tragic heroes. Two of the great tragedies are Oedipus Rex, by John Bennett and Moira Kerr and Prometheus, by Rex Warner. The character Oedipus in the tragedy Oedipus Rex definitely exhibits the highest degree of remorse from audiences, because the character goes from happiness to suffering, the uncontrollable fate, and often involving the deaths or suffering of their families. For a start, Oedipus is far more tragic than Prometheus, because he falls straight down from having a happy family to becoming a murderer of his own father and a husband of his own mother. Oedipus ruled as a kind and beloved king of Thebes, and who also marries Jocasta; the widow of dead King Laius. Whereas he finds out that the murderer of King Laius is he himself, who brings diseases as the punishments of the murderer to Thebans, he “angered more than ever, Oedipus told the old man to get out of his sight and never come near him again” …show more content…
However, compare to Oedipus and Prometheus in all these character traits, Oedipus exhibits more remorse obviously, in which his inescapable fate of killing his own father and marrying his own mother although he tried to get away. Furthermore, Prometheus is also suffering the mental and physical punishment from Zeus, which he is paying the price to what he have done previously, and it is the same to his brother Atlas as well. Therefore, there is nobody can struggle with the storms of fate, so no matter a life is ended in a tragic way or a comic way, they have to pay the
(Prometheus & Oedipus) Everybody has to be responsible for what they have done, and the inescapable fate would give a rise to a tragic ending. Compare to different tragedies, some of them would exhibit more remorse from audience about its tragic heroes. Two of the great tragedies are Oedipus Rex, by John Bennett and Moira Kerr and Prometheus, by Rex Warner. The character Oedipus in the tragedy Oedipus Rex definitely exhibits the highest degree of remorse from audiences, because the character goes from happiness to suffering, the uncontrollable fate, and often involving the deaths or suffering of their families. For a start, Oedipus is far more tragic than Prometheus, because he falls straight down from having a happy family to becoming a murderer of his own father and a husband of his own mother. Oedipus ruled as a kind and beloved king of Thebes, and who also marries Jocasta; the widow of dead King Laius. Whereas he finds out that the murderer of King Laius is he himself, who brings diseases as the punishments of the murderer to Thebans, he “angered more than ever, Oedipus told the old man to get out of his sight and never come near him again” …show more content…
However, compare to Oedipus and Prometheus in all these character traits, Oedipus exhibits more remorse obviously, in which his inescapable fate of killing his own father and marrying his own mother although he tried to get away. Furthermore, Prometheus is also suffering the mental and physical punishment from Zeus, which he is paying the price to what he have done previously, and it is the same to his brother Atlas as well. Therefore, there is nobody can struggle with the storms of fate, so no matter a life is ended in a tragic way or a comic way, they have to pay the