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Oedipus rex by Sophocles
Title: Oedipus rex by Sophocles
Category: Literature / Mythology
Details: Words: 626 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus rex by Sophocles
In the story of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a good natured person that has bad 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 all on to himself because of his own personal pride.
One day Oedipus finds out that there is a prophecy that depicts him killing his father and marrying …showed first 75 words of 626 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 626 total…and told Teiresius that he was a liar. In the beginning, Teiresius was simply trying to ease him slowly into the truth.
Oedipus was too proud to see any truths and he refused to believe that he could be responsible for such a horrible crime. He learned a lesson about life and how there is more to it than just one person's pride.
Work Cited Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. World Literature. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993. 307-367.
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