Oedipus the King

Thebes has been in a state of chaos for far too long a time. The bodies are piling up and it's starting to come crazy with the amount of caskets around the graveyards. The plague is spreading exponentially and there's no end in sight. Oedipus, the king, is growing concerned with how his city is faring out to be. With no solution in his mind, he turns to the Delphic oracle. He has his brother-in-law Creon visit the oracle and see if there is anyway the plague can be put to a halt. Creon, going at…

about the nature of the future and the gods, reminds Oedipus that the only the gods cause his downfall; he is only their messenger. Oedipus is ignorant of the fact that his fate lies in the hands of the gods, not in the control of mortals. Tiresias, despite his blindness, sees past Oedipus’ naïve understanding of fate and into the cruel mechanism of the gods. The gods ordain a punishment to Oedipus since birth, while he is blameless. Even though Oedipus is guilty of the crimes the prophecy…

In Oedipus the King, irony is frequently used and revolves around Oedipus and Tiresias. At the beginning of the tragedy when Oedipus is talking to the priest an example of dramatic irony is portrayed. Oedipus speaks with great confidence and authority when telling the priest that, ”But once he returns then i will be a traitor; if i do not do all the god makes clear”(Sophocles 162). As Oedipus says this he is unaware that he will actually become a traitor when he returns. At the moment, Oedipus…

One mistake Oedipus and his birth family make during the tragedy Oedipus the King is trying to avoid fate. By trying to avoid what was foretold to him and his family, they tried to run away from the problem, which only Oedipus’s fate come true. Had they not listened, not believed in "fate", the question is whether he would have ever made any of that come true. Though the main question throughout the tale is; can we control our fate, or are we not in control of the outcomes in our life? In…

delusional and is unable to accept the fact that he has failed to achieve the state at which he longed to be at. Oedipus lacked the knowledge of the prophecy and everything that he believed in was false. Another example of the similarities between the two stories is that both protagonists inflicted self harm upon themselves. Willy commits suicide in attempt do something right for his family and Oedipus gouges his eyes out as well as casts himself out of the city as punishment for his mistakes.…

can see the different side of tem from the rest of society. The author of “Oedipus the King” uses dramatic irony to illustrate the audience’s sympathy towards Oedipus’s blindness to his fate. The readers of the play knew that Oedipus indeed fulfilled his fate by killing his father and marrying his mother without realizing it. During Oedipus’s journey to find the killer of Laius, some truth started to become known to Oedipus that the audience already knew. Eventually, he learns that he did kill…

indeed be taken literally, it can also encompass much more than simply “seeing” something. This distinction between the literal definition of sight and a deeper sense of sight can be found in the comparison between Sophocles’s Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, and Sir Author Conan Doyle’s short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Although these two classic works exhibit striking similarities because of their comparable emphases on sight and observation, upon further inspection, it is evident that this…

determined by a higher power as Oedipus decides to continue to follow the fate the gods have laid out for him; in doing so, he puts himself in the direct path of that very fate. To begin, he visits the oracles, he concedes the power of fate as the reason for his destruction, and he fights dynamically to meet his end as the gods promised. Due to these factors, Fate and justice is determined by a higher power. To begin, God sends the prophesies to Oedipus that allows him to…

My vase scene describes when Oedipus was killing King Laius, his father. When Oedipus found out that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother, he thought it was his adoptive parents, which he didn’t know. Oedipus didn’t want to kill his father, so he decided to run away. As he was walking, where three roads meet, at the crossroad, a man from behind him was yelling and telling him to move making Oedipus mad. So he decided to fight back by killing all of them, including the kind, but…

Oedipus the King has remained a contentiously debated literary work for a multitude of reasons. Arguably, the most important debate encompassing this work relates to the relationship between how individuals exercise free-will and how fate, and sometimes the Gods, influence their actions and their lives. In an article of literary criticism, entitled Tampering With the Future: Apollo 's Prophecy in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex by Christopher Nassaar, Nassaar focuses on how Oedipus fulfilled Apollo 's…