Laius

who will listen, he is proving that the people and the city means more to him than a lot of things that should matter in the long run. By gaining these followers this also has a high position from everyone needing his help to figure out who killed Laius and how to stop the devastating plague. Therefore, the high status position he is in gives him a sway…

Pitiful Oedipus A tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus endures many tragic events that lead to the to the downfall and suffering of his character. For a Greek tragedy to be a tragedy if must have a certain magnitude, pity and fear, and a complex plot according to Aristotle. A certain magnitude of good to bad fortune should be used in the play. In…

reference, what if a soothsayer prognosticated the scene of your death but abstained from mentioning names, using only titles like mother and father. This would incite even more paranoia, to start doubting those around you - even your own parents. In Laius case he heeded the warning of the soothsayer, taking preemptive measure to disavow his child, deserting him to become wolf chow. Yet, in spite of all his meddling, destiny accommodated accordingly and spared the life of the prophesied child.…

At some point in our lives there comes a time that we see ourselves as superior to others. In Oedipus’ case, that was from the beginning of his time. As a young man, Oedipus was living the life of royalty and never really knew anything otherwise. Growing up in this kind of lifestyle shaped the way Oedipus viewed himself and interacted with others. Expressing attributes like excessive pride, overconfidence, and lack of judgement, Oedipus paves the way for his own destruction that affects not only…

Literature Essay-Oedipus The King Prompt: Who do you think is responsible for the tragedy of Oedipus? (Some candidates: the gods (Apollo), fate, Oedipus’ hubris, Tiresias, Jocasta and Laius, the sphinx.) David Liu 27 Mr. de Groof According to Collins English Dictionary, the definition of hubris is “an excess of ambition, pride”. Hubris is a person like Oedipus in this play who tricks himself. Throughout the story of Oedipus the king, Sophocles developed the story by building up…

Upon hearing from the old man who was with King Laius the day the king died, it was revealed to Oedipus that he himself had killed his own father. Oedipus exclaimed, “Woe! Woe! It is all plain, indeed! O Light, this be the last time I shall gaze on thee, who am revealed to have been born of those Of whom…

when calls Tiresias the blind prophet a liar and he does so publicly. He disregards Tiresias' special skills, social rank, prior good record, and advanced age. He acts badly, just because he does not like being accused of the killing of Theban King Laius. It took Tiresias to finally say “the killer is you!”, and Oedipus still didn’t believe him. Even when the evidence was overwhelming he still denied the killer was him, it took him summoning the servant that took him away telling him that his…

I agree Oedipus Rex is a story of fate versus free will. I believe Oedipus was hopeless from birth due to his father Laius, choosing to have a son although being aware of the consequences. He had the abilities to shape his own future to a certain extent but with his dreadful past of not knowing who his biological parents were and already making the mistakes of killing his father and marring his mother, I felt it was too late. During multiple times of the play, Oedipus was referred as "Oedipus…

desire for Oedipus’s destruction for refusing to tell him who Laius’s murderer is. The investigation takes a turn towards the mystery behind Oedipus’s past as well as his fate. Oedipus realizes Apollo’s prophecy was true and he murdered his father, Laius followed by matrimony to his mother. Oedipus experiences the inevitability of destiny which illuminates the meaning of Sohpocles’s play; his cruel character exemplifies the undesirable consequences arrogant and relentless people…

honored and applauded by various people of Thebes for his fearless action. The citizens saw his actions as heroic and made him King. The city is in ruins and it is Oedipus’ duty to save the city once again. He must find and execute the murderer of Laius who was once the king of Thebes and secretly the father of Oedipus. But to Oedipus’s…