Flaw Of Oedipus The King

The Greek drama “Oedipus The King” evidently leads to the unveiling of a tragedy. Oedipus, the protagonist of the play uncovers his tragic birth story and the curse he had been baring his whole life. Oedipus is notorious for his personal insight that helped him defeat Sphinx, which lead him to becoming the king of Thebes. He is admired by the people of Thebes and is considered to be a mature, inelegant and a rational leader. From his birth, his story began with a prophecy that Oedipus would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Through out the play numerous people, who tell him of his unknown past, visit Oedipus. Blind to the truth he casts them away until a blind man named Therisis gives a sight of truth to Oedipus. As Oedipus learns the truth he realizes the great evil his life carries. After finding his wife and also mother hung in her bedroom, Oedipus blinds himself with the gold pins that held Jocasta’s robe. Oedipus blind to the truth is finally able to see when the old blind man visits him and tells him the truth about his life. Both metaphorically and physically sight plays a significant role in understanding the irony of a blind man seeing the truth while Oedipus who isn’t blind doesn’t seem to the truth that’s right in front of him.

Oedipus is a very ignorant character. The play reveals that he killed his father and slept with his mother. To make matters worse, he has no idea that he has done either of these things. As the play progresses, hints of Oedipus’s wrongdoings pop up sporadically, yet he does not catch on until the end. Other characters realize what is going on before Oedipus does. It is Oedipus’s ignorance that prolongs his search for King Laius’s killer and his realization of his

"Oedipus the King" written by Sophocles, is a powerful Greek tragedy story. The protagonist, Oedipus is a heroic mythical king who had it all. Oedipus pursues to find the true answers to his identity and destiny, while at the same time trying to avoid fulfilling his destiny.

Here Oedipus is complaining some more, but this time it’s about how horrible of a thing incest is and also about him coming to terms with his actions. Oedipus, who is one of the last people to actually realise what is going on, has finally realized that and is lamenting because of his own poor choices. This excerpt also focuses on the ignorance of Oedipus, because instead of focusing on more pertinent problems (like the plague ravaging Thebes), Oedipus just deicedes to complain, get angry, complain, blind himself, and continue complaining. Here Oedipus is finally able to comprehend how bad of a king he is and why he was a bad king.

It is fair to say that Oedipus had many flaws that would eventually allow him to go from being a “great” king and savior of a city, to being a looked at very shamefully and ruining the city of Thebes. Oedipus did some heroic things to get into certain positions throughout his life, but would ruin them all with his cockiness, prowess, and over eccentric pride.

Evidence: “ How i weep for you -- I cannot see you now… just thinking of all your days to come, the bitterness, the life that rough mankind will thrust upon you… such disgrace and you must bear it all! Who will marry you then? Not a man on earth. Your doom is clear: you’ll wither away to nothing, single, without a child. (Line 1625-1645)

Oedipus learns the truth about his messed up life when he finds out that he killed his own father and married his mother. Even though it was not Oedipus's fault he still takes the fall for it. When I read this writing prompt, I knew exactly what I was going to write about. Families are not perfect and there are family members in every family that mess up and make huge mistakes. In my case, I have a few distant family members that decided to take the wrong path in life. I have a cousin that is six years older than me and he lives about two hours away. The sad thing about this is my cousin is currently sitting in jail. Unfortunately, my cousin's father, which is not my uncle anymore, decided to turn his life towards drugs. My cousin was not aware that my ex-uncle was dealing and do heavy drugs. My Uncle eventually got caught, went to prison, and was released just a few months ago. The part where I connect my cousin and Oedipus together is that my cousin began working with his father. My cousin and ex-uncle do a lot of construction

15 pages. Only after 15 pages of the story we have already seen a revelation with King Oedipus and the perception he presents in this story. Since the inception of King Oedipus, every individual in the class knew that this story was unique. Sophocles constructed a very innovative storyline and Oedipus’s role in the story has been a major influence in demonstrating pivotal themes. This has manifested already as we see the interactions of characters in the story.

Fate chose him to kill his dad, marry his mom, and discover it all in Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ tragedy. Oedipus was so determined to save Thebes from the plague bestowed on them by Apollo. But little did he know that he was the source of it all. His constant reversal of fortune, neutrality, and suffering make him the perfect example of a classic Greek tragic hero.

Oedipus the King is a poem that is very heartbreaking and cruel because of the many things that happened to Oedipus had nothing to do with him. He was not responsible for anything bad that happened to him in his life and I feel like his life was already planned out from before he was even born. His life was not fair because he did not even take any decisions for himself about how he wanted to live and was treated like a puppet. So many horrible stuff were happening around Oedipus and he had no idea about any of them. They are all very wicked and twisted stuff that no one would even dare to imagine them or think about them. Oedipus did not have a tragic flaw because everything was already predestined to happen and nothing would change even if he wanted to do something about it. That is what makes this poem even more tragic because he did not have any control about his own life or even about himself. This poem is about a king that falls in love and even marries his own mother without knowing that she is his mom and kills his dad without knowing he is his dad. That was all part of a curse that was told to his dad. The curse said that the child of Laius and Jocasta was destined to kill Laius and marry Jocasta.

At one time in our lives there is a moment that we may think of ourselves as better than someone or something else. There may also be a point when making a decision leads to a great error in judgment. In the play Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, both of these characteristics can be seen in the main character. These characteristics are known as tragic flaws. These flaws are known as hubris meaning excess pride, leading to overconfidence, and hamartia meaning errors and weakness in judgment. Both of these characteristics are the main reason of destruction and downfall in mankind and the tragic hero in this play. The tragic hero is unable to escape his misfortune that is destined to happen.

The tragic flaw of a human being is usually checked with the method he or she reacts with to the circumstances that life throws upon him or her. Contemporary society appears to be fixated on giving gatherings of people cases of such individuals who, in spite of the affliction of their lives, that still transcend. In fact, maybe nobody is more fit for indicating triumph over struggles than Sophocles and William Shakespeare. In both Oedipus and Hamlet, for example, the primary characters struggle with many obstacles and consequences and find themselves with unimaginable problems furthermore and are compelling to choose what the correct decision will be. This develops to Oedipus and Hamlet becoming motivated, courageous people and also becoming dishonest to themselves throughout the two books. Shakespeare and Sophocles’ plays show that sometimes when dealing with consequences and the obstacles there are different ways to react instead of leading to a tragedy. Oedipus and Hamlet’s motivation in dealing with problems is evident when the two primary characters want to find out the murderers of their father’s. Their courageous actions develop them towards having one goal, which was to kill the former King, and show courageous traits towards other people. They become dishonest to their themselves and is showed throughout the two books, which then causes misfortune for both of them in the end. Despite the resemblances of the two, Hamlet is in control of his activities, and he very

When demanded the answer as to who the murderer was,Tiresias told Oedipus that he, was the “defiler of this land,”(30).Essentially, Tiresias was telling Oedipus that he was the unclean that needed to be driven out of the land. Angered, outraged, and confused, Oedipus could not accept this truth of hearing he was the murderer, and further insulted the blind prophet.Similarly, Oedipus’s pride falsely led him to think that he could escape his fate that he was told about in the prophecy. While in Corinth, Oedipus went to a shrine of Apollo, where he was told a prophecy in which he would marry his mother, have unnatural children, and murder his father. “The oracle of Phoebus Apollo said that I/ Must kill my father, lie with my mother. /This drove me out of Corinth. I regret nothing - /I have married happily, raised a family, known the sweetness of power” (61). Oedipus believed that since he escaped his “parents” from Corinth, he escaped his fate and was free of murdering his father and marrying his mother. Because he did not believe in oracles nor know Laius was his father, he was certain at this point that he indeed was not king Laius’s murderer, despite Tiresias’s words. As the tragedy unfolded, it showed further evidence that he had fulfilled the prophecy. Oedipus’s pride, which was once seen as favorable to him, destroyed him in the end.

"Oedipus the King" is a tragic play showing a shift from the belief of fate to freedom of choice. Therefore, Oedipus the king is a great example of those who run from fate ends up fulfilling their fate

The Oracle at Delphi in Oedipus predicts the downfall and destruction of Oedipus, despite Oedipus' avoidance of the prophecy. Oedipus recalls the Oracle as stating: "that I [Oedipus] was fated to defile my mother's bed, that I should show unto men a brood which they could not endure to behold, and that I should be the slayer of the sire who begot me." When Oedipus learns of the calamitous oracle his immediate intentions are to thwart it. He leaves Polybus of Corinth, whom Oedipus believes to be his father, and travels to Thebes to avoid fulfilling the ruinous prophecy. When he arrives at Thebes Oedipus is falsely assured of his intellect when he solves the riddle of the Sphinx and is appointed king. Oedipus then believes that he has successfully avoided the Oracle.