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What Is Oedipus Tragic Flaw

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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. …show more content…

For example, when Oedipus found out that he married his mother and killed his father he took his own eyes out. This shows us Oedipus's rightfulness. This is a metaphor because even though Oedipus had eyes before he could not see what was happening around him, and when he took them out he saw things more clearly. In the article Oedipus Rex as the Ideal Tragic Hero of Aristotle, it says that “If we give ourselves up to a full sympathy with the hero, there is no question that the Oedipus Rex fulfils the function of a tragedy, and arouses fear and pity in the highest degree”(p. 2). This shows us how Oedipus is clearly not at fault of what happened to

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