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Oedipus The King: A Tragic Hero
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The downfall of a hero follows from his very nature. In Sophocles
play, Oedipus the King, (reprinted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia,
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York,
NY 1995), the playwright focuse .... Middle of Term Paper
... but on the
journey he becomes engaged in a quarrel. He kills King Laios and Laios' men
not realizing that the king is his biological father. Af ter reaching
Thebes he becomes the new king by solving a riddle and lifting a plaque
from the city. Oedipus quickly marries a woman named Iocaste, the queen,
and together they have four children. In Thebes the murder of the old King
Laios remains unknown, a plaque is again placed upon the city by the gods.
Oedipus, being the new leader of Thebes, pledges to discover the identity
of the murderer so he can end the disaster. In his searching, Oedipus
discovers that he is the murderer of the kin ... |
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