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Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus began as a king, only to end the tale as a blinded
beggar. Oedipus' fall from his kingly status was not by accident or
because of some other person. Oedipus is the only one that can be blamed
for his misfortune. Oedipus' character t .... Middle of Term Paper
... Teiresias foretold the ending of the story. If Oedipus
had been more patient and waited, he might have not been quite so upset
about the future, nor shaken up about what was to happen.
However, that one trait did not alone take away his position of high
authority. Oedipus displayed anger throughout the whole story, which did
not help him at all. During the story, we learn of Oedipus' anger as he
knocked a passerby at the meeting of the three highways; "I struck him in
my rage". Later, this passerby whom he angrily and quickly killed, was
revealed to be Laios, Oedipus' father. Oedipus' anger also quickly
shifted his judgement of Te ... |
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