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Oedipus Rex
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....quickly come to complicate any critical discussion(). Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King fits into a tragedy because it recounts the events in the life of , arouses pity and fear in the audience, and ends in an unhappy catastrophe (Harmon).
Oedipus’ life began in Thebes as the son of Laius and Jocasta. Apollo h.... Part 2 of Paper
....eath by executing or exiling his killer. Oedipus’ brother-in-law Creon tells him to ask the prophet, Tiresias, who the killer is. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he does not want to know who the killer is, but Oedipus keeps on Tiresias until he tells Oedipus that,
"I charge you, then, submit to that decree you just laid down: from this day onward speak to no one, not these citizens, nor myself. You are the curse, the corruption of the land."(Sophocles 833)
At first Oedipus thinks Cr.... |
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