Oedipus Rex, a Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles, is about a protagonist of the same name whose entire life becomes a disaster after he inadvertently becomes entangled in a string of events and a crime he also unknowingly committed. This tragedy begins with Oedipus in dire search of the man who cursed the city of Thebes with a plague and sets off to be the hero and save his city, the zenith of the tragedy is a tragedy of discovering that he was the one who unintentionally caused Thebes and it all ends with the gouging out of his eyes and his exile from Thebes. In this tragedy Oedipus is constantly blinded by excessive nature of being proud, this affects his judgement and in turn it was his own free will that led to his inevitable downfall and not fate.
From the very start evidence of Oedipus’s excessive pride is shown with this statement not even a page in; “I have come in person-I, Oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge” ( pg.897 ). This truly shows the man who Oedipus is, with his prominent arrogance. This also demonstrates how he may not even take action, he may just talk big, but have no backing behind his words. This sense of arrogance foreshadows how conflict may arise later in the story when all the events are put in place and …show more content…
For this it is Oedipus’s excessive pride to let him ignore Tiresias prophecy and to continue on the path clouded by his own hand. With all of the entangling events occurring in quick succession it leads to a tragic demise of our hero where he loses his mother-wife, his physical sight, and is exiled from his own city for which he nearly destroyed by his own hands. In the end, his own choice of being ignorant and pushing forward are what bring this mortifying outcome for
From the very start evidence of Oedipus’s excessive pride is shown with this statement not even a page in; “I have come in person-I, Oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge” ( pg.897 ). This truly shows the man who Oedipus is, with his prominent arrogance. This also demonstrates how he may not even take action, he may just talk big, but have no backing behind his words. This sense of arrogance foreshadows how conflict may arise later in the story when all the events are put in place and …show more content…
For this it is Oedipus’s excessive pride to let him ignore Tiresias prophecy and to continue on the path clouded by his own hand. With all of the entangling events occurring in quick succession it leads to a tragic demise of our hero where he loses his mother-wife, his physical sight, and is exiled from his own city for which he nearly destroyed by his own hands. In the end, his own choice of being ignorant and pushing forward are what bring this mortifying outcome for