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Oedipus the King is a great play whose qualities of inscrutability and of pervasive ironically quickly come to complicate any critical discussion(). Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King fits into a tragedy because it recounts the events in the ....

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... and learned that he was cursed. He left Athens believing that Polybus and Merope were his parents. He thought that if he moved away the curse would not come true. Oedipus left Athens and during his travels he ended up killing Laius and became the king of Thebes and married after answering the riddle. After Oedipus became King his kingdom was hit by a plague and the only way to stop the plague was to avenge Laius’ death by executing or exiling his killer. Oedipus’ brother-in-law Creon tells him to ask the prophet, Tiresias, who the killer is. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he does not want to know who the killer is, but Oedipus keeps ...