Oedipus, from Sophocles’ tragic play, Oedipus Rex, has an honorable and admirable point of view on his manner to the injustice with his kingdom. Oedipus faces many challenges: the slaughter of king Laius and his guards, incest pertaining himself and his mother, and the overall plague and downfall of his kingdom. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus tries to get rid of the sphinx ruining the kingdom of Thebes. As a matter of fact, he does this because the mythical creature was terrorizing the citizens and he thought it was unjust. Oedipus believes that finding the culprit and punishing them is the correct thing to do, so they will never commit the same unbearable crime again: no man should go unpunished for a crime that should not have been done. Another
