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Oedpius: Justice...
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Oedipus is not formally charged with any crimes. He does manage
however to commit incest, and murder. His father is cursed. The curse
states that his son will kill him and marry his wife. These facts are
discovered in the introductory, ".. .... Middle of Term Paper
... he has killed the former
King nor do the people. He marries the queen which just happens to be his
biological mother and has children by her. " ...child of impurity,
begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self."
Oedipus does not try to defend his actions. In fact he blames
himself as quoted from the story "Light of the sun, let me look upon you no
more after today! I who first saw you the light bred of a match accursed,
and accursed ." The consequences of his actions are harsh. He stabs his
own eyes out and his wife/mother took her own life.
Justice is defined as "the abstract principle by which right and
wrong a ... |
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