Oedipus rex by Sophocles

        In the story of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a intelligent natured person that has mischievous 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 whole on to himself because of his own personal pride.         One daytime Oedipus finds footmark up that there is a prophecy that depicts him killing his sky pilot and marrying his mother. The prophecy may have been proven untrue if he wouldnt have put himself on such a mettlesome pedestal. It all started one day when he met up with indication Laius:          Seated in it. The groom confidential information the horses                   pressure 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 give over first, and then the King pushed him out of the way. In a start 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 plan it, you had it done, you all but                  Killed him with your own reach: if you had eyes,                  Id say that the curse 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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