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Oedipus The King: A Tragic Hero
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....ted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia,
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York,
NY 1995), the playwright focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes,
who is trying to discover the truth about his past. When he was born, his
parents learned from an oracle that their child would .... Part 2 of Paper
....pon the city by the gods.
Oedipus, being the new leader of Thebes, pledges to discover the identity
of the murderer so he can end the disaster. In his searching, Oedipus
discovers that he is the murderer of the king and eventually discovers that
Iocaste is really his own mother. In a Greek tragedy the hero is a
character amply capable of choices, capable, too of accepting the
consequences. Whether Oedipus' sufferings are due to a flaw of character
or to an error of judgement, we discover that.... |
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