Oedipus The King: Human's Dilemma

The play Oedipus Rex contains numerous human issues through the text by each characters and their dilemma. Oedipus is the main character who faces human versus dilemma directly. All of his issues in the text are seems unsolvable in human’s point of view. As the matter of fact, his life has been noticed by oracles by the Gods and Oedipus is the only one who does not realize the fact.
The majorly debatable topic of the issues based on the passage is significantly divided into the Gods and Humans. The assigned two passages are the most representative choral lyrics of Oedipus and its dilemma. The first passage by the Chorus is about Human against divine justice. The speaker of the passage is the Chorus, who can interpret as representation of the human being. It describes the distinctive human behaviors such as keep its own faith to the Gods and hoping to live according to the laws of the Gods. As the Chorus narrates, “I only ask to live with pure faith keeping in word and deed that Law which spans the sky made of no mortal mould undimmed unsleeping whose living godhead does not age or die” (870) that revere the
This passage is mainly about mixture of few different emotions such as confidence and pride against fragility of happiness. According to the passage, the chorus narrates about happiness that defines by human. The emotion happiness narrated by the chorus exemplifies the character Oedipus, “Show me the man whose happiness was anything more than hopes followed by disillusion” which is such a fragile and unsterilized emotion of human. Oedipus used to be such a proud man in the world “All Thebes was proud of the majesty of his name” before he figures out the truth of his destiny and oracles has made in the past. This represents the idea of pride versus fragile happiness that human hopes in general. The passage narrates the fact that most of human’s desires of achievements are precariously