"Gods can be evil sometimes." In the play "Oedipus the King"‚ Sophocles defamed the gods’ reputation‚ and lowered their status by making them look harmful and evil. It is known that all gods should be perfect and infallible‚ and should represent justice and equity‚ but with Oedipus‚ the gods decided to destroy him and his family for no reason. It might be hard to believe that gods can have humanistic traits‚ but in fact they do. The gods‚ especially Apollo‚ are considered evil by the reader because
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king of Thebes. The next characteristic that Oedipus possesses that makes him a tragic hero is that his downfall is of his own doing. The act that ultimately contributes to Oedipus’ downfall is that of when he kills his father and he explains to Jocasta that he killed everyone‚ “I killed them all-every
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fulfilled a prophecy that his parents were trying so desperately to avoid. Oedipus who was abandoned by his parents as a child fulfilled the prophecy by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother‚ Jocasta‚ the queen. Everything in their life had been turned upside down. After Jocasta realized she married her son she hung herself and Oedipus stabs his eyes out. Oedipus goes into exile and leaves his sons to join together
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Myths and legends form part of every known culture in the world. Though not scientifically proven‚ they aid in providing everyday humans to make sense of the universe‚ especially when explaining one’s place in the world. The desire for the truth‚ the passion that ignites the relentless search without once thinking of the consequences. This can be described as the human condition. What is the human condition? Through his interpretation of the Theban legend‚ Sophocles (c. 496 BCE – c.406 BCE) explores
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“Jim the Psychic” episode of Taxi‚ which can be compared to Oedipus Rex. In this episode‚ Jim makes the claim that Alex Rieger is going to die on that upcoming Thursday night after having a dream‚ similar to how the Oracle of Delphi told Laius and Jocasta that their son‚ Oedipus‚ would grow up to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Alex dismissed Jim’s dream in the same manner as Jocasta’s disbelief in the prophets. However‚ everything he stated would happen during the days leading up to that
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murderer and to send for Teiresias. Teriesias states that Oedipus is the murderer‚ but since the king knows himself to be innocent (or thinks he knows)‚ he accuses Creon of plotting with Teiresias against him. The quarrel of Oedipus and Creon brings Jocasta from the house; seeking to calm down her husband and prove that oracles cannot be trusted‚ she tells again of how Laius died. When she mentions that he was killed ¡§at a place where three roads meet‚¡¨ Oedipus suddenly begins to suspect that he may
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have prevented him from completing the Oracle. Instead‚ Oedipus acts impetuously‚ and got himself into more trouble than what was needed to begin with. Next‚ Oedipus dooms himself by killing his father‚ Lauis‚ and laying with his mother‚ Jocasta‚ and therefore completing the Oracle. When Oedipus learns that he will kill his father and lay with his mother from the Delphic Oracle and flees to Thebes‚ he meets a king in a coach at a crossroad on the way to Thebes. He gets driven off
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PROLOGUE OEDIPUS My children‚ scions of the ancient Cadmean line‚ what is the meaning of this thronging round my feet‚ this holding out of olive boughs all wreathed in woe? The city droops with elegaic sound and hymns with pails of incense hang. I come to see it with my eyes‚ no messenger’s. Yes‚ I whom men call Oedipus the Great. [He turns to the PRIEST] Speak‚ Elder‚ you are senior here. Say what this pleading means‚ what frightens you‚ what you beseech. Coldblooded would I be‚ to be unmoved
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this trip‚ Oedipus came across a man in a carriage and killed him because he failed to abide by the right of way. After killing the man in the carriage‚ Oedipus makes his way to Thebes where he concurred the Sphinx and married the Queen of Thebes‚ Jocasta. To this point in the play‚ Oedipus believed he had done the right thing by leaving Corinth and that he had escaped the prophecy. This feeling was multiplied when the messenger delivers the news of Polybus’s death. However‚ the messenger then proceeds
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After a while‚ she knew that she had been married and conceived children with her own son‚ but she didn’t want Oedipus nor herself to believe that was true. When Oedipus knew the truth he went to see Jocasta and saw her dead. He felt devastated. He took the golden brooches that held the queenly robe s and plunged his eyeballs out. He no longer wanted to see anything. What was ironic is before that‚ he could see but was as if he was blind; he couldn’t
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