Pride In Oedipus Rex

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In the beginning people are dying because of a plague. Throughout the city there is death battening it and everyone in it.
Carson tells Oedipus that the gods are commanding them to leave Thebes. He also tells him that he [Oedipus] has to find the murderer of the once King, Laïos if he wants to save Thebes.
According to Creon, a band of highwaymen attacked King Laïos and his men. The reason King Laïos had been out was to make a pilgrimage.
Oedipus decides that he is going to set out to find the King 's murderer and avenge Laïos. Oedipus also had called upon other men who might have information on where to find him.
Teiresias is one of Apollo 's prophets, who also happened to be blind. Oedipus called upon him to receive help on discovering
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Much like Oedipus, humans tend to be too prideful and will refuse to yield in certain circumstances. As Oedipus refused to yield to the man at the crossroads, who later ends up to be his father Laïos, a man from Vallejo "refused to yield when the officer attempted a vehicle stop and continued for another mile before pulling over" (Times-Herald Staff). Both Oedipus and the Vallejo man, Douglas Bandana, are both prideful in their actions that they become ignorant with the reality around them. Another similarity the two men share is the fact that they were both criminals of desired fights they both started. While they 're similar in their refusal to yield, they are also different in their own ways. When Oedipus finally sees his true fate and sees Iocaste dead he "ripped from her gown the golden brooches that were her ornament, and raised them, and plunged them down straight into his own eyeballs, crying 'No more, no more shall you look on the misery about me, the horrors of my own doing!" (Sophocles 69). He becomes literally blind to hide his eyes from his shame and wrong doing. Bandana however, did not come to an understanding of what he had done. The man also had "an unloaded semi-automatic handgun [that] was found on the front seat. Bandana was subsequently booked into the Solano County Jail on various charges" (Times- Herald Staff). Bandana was also accompanied by Oscar Monreal who "was also arrested on a Napa Superior Court warrant for carrying a concealed dirk or dagger and brandishing a deadly weapon other than a firearm" (Times-Herald Staff). Oedipus had been alone when he committed the crime of murder on Laïos on the

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