The play "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles is a tragedy in which the main character‚ Oedipus Rex‚ killed his father and married his mother. Approaching the end of the play‚ Creon‚ now the King of Thebes‚ said to Oedipus‚ "Think no longer/That you are in command here‚ but rather think/How‚ when you were‚ you served your own destruction." Creon is correct in this pronouncement. Three times throughout the play‚ Oedipus failed to take the advice of significant people in his life. His father‚ Polybus‚ the prophet
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said in haste? In Sophacles ’ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus longed to retract the curse that he brought upon himself but what he did could not be undone. Oedipus ’ pride blinded him to himself and everything around him. He had eyes that could see physically but could not recognize any faults within himself. Ironically‚ a blind man was able to perceive the truth and even then Oedipus did not believe. Sophacles ’ Oedipus Rex is the epiphany of dramatic irony. Oedipus is a proud man. He thinks of himself
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Confidence breeds Ignorance Sophocles’ Oedipus Cycle‚ Oedipus’s uncle and brother-in-law‚ Creon‚ has more lines than Oedipus. The story of the deterioration and eventual loss of Creon’s family is a plot point emphasized more in the final play of the Oedipus Cycle‚ Antigone‚ than in the latter two plays‚ Creon’s deterioration‚ however‚ is brought about by the same cause that triggers Oedipus’s downfall: his hubris. Though Creon is the voice of reason in Oedipus Rex‚ his hubris in the latter two
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Alexis Jones Mr. Rowland English 11 Honors 30 September 2014 Oedipus Tragic Flaw Oedipus Rex is a story about a tragic hero that has a flaw that helps and harms him‚ he is flawed from the start brought him about his own actions and he is a leader that faces a tragic end with honor. The author of this book is Sophocles Oedipus flaw was his pride .During this story Oedipus was very ignorant toward the people around him because he didn’t want to believe that what they were saying was true. He
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Composition August 8‚ 2011 What makes Oedipus the King of Tragedy? How did Oedipus bring about his own destruction? Or is he the victim of a greater force such as fate or the gods? How does pride affect his actions? How do you feel as you watch him fall? Fate is a theme that is often occurring in Greek plays and tragedies in particular. From the beginning of Oedipus‚ the King‚ we know that Oedipus is destined to kill his father and marry with his mother. Oedipus discovers that his past is very different
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Oedipus Rex – Key Quotes OPENING SCENE – TONE‚ LOCATION AND EXPOSITION The action takes place in Thebes in front of the royal palace OEDIPUS: the city fills with incense‚ chants‚ and cries of pain? PRIEST: For our city‚ as you yourself can see‚ is badly shaken—she cannot raise her head above the depths of so much surging death. Disease infects fruit blossoms in our land‚ disease infects our herds of grazing cattle‚ makes women in labour lose their children.
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weakness‚ shared by some practitioners of Structuralism (q.v.)‚ is Aristotle’s fondness for defnition and categorizatino by "binary oppositions": states which are supposed to be mutually exclusive (i.e.‚ "live or dead‚" "on or off‚" in that you can’t be both‚ but must be one or the other). Many of the oppositions by which he constructed his literary analysis are suspect or simply wrong‚ at least in our own era (e.g.‚ "comedy or tragedy" has become confused with tragi-comedy and satire). Post-Aristotelian
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THE KING WEARS A SHADES AS THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT WHICH MAKES HIS DAYS DARKER AND DARKER EVERY SINGLE DAY (with some relations to the Philippine Government and setting as a whole) A POSITION PAPER ON SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS REX REGULANO‚ Jean Paula Bermudez 2011-05787 HUM 1 X Oedipus Rex’ knowledge‚ which served as his gut against the others to be the King of Thebes‚ is only limited to the information on his people and his environment‚ excluding the information about himself due to his blindness and
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The story of Oedipus is a tragic story. The story starts out with Oedipus being cursed by Apollo with a prophecy. The prophecy said that Oedipus will kill his father and sleep with his mother. Later‚ Oedipus leaves his parents and heads for Thebes. Along his way‚ comes a man in the center of a three way road way. Oedipus tells him to move and he refuses and Oedipus kills Laius‚ the king of Thebes and Oedipus real father. Then later on Oedipus becomes the King of Thebes and marries Jocasta‚ the Queen
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Michelle Salcedo OEDIPUS THE KING Mr.Marzian AP English “Oedipus the King” was a tale depicting the human experience; each human has a great victory‚ shortly accompanied by a great demise; the rollercoaster of life. Oedipus had his great success soon become the reason for his fall. With Oedipus’ deadly flaw being ‘hubris’; his excessive pride led him to believe he was on the level of ‘gods’. Once he paraded that he was invulnerable (untouchable by even the gods)‚ his fall would
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