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Kenya Wicker World Literature I Dr. Beller March 25, 2019 Essay 2 Oedipus As a Tragic Hero Is Oedipus a tragic hero? A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that unescapably leads to their own destruction. Oedipus is a tragic hero because he is a king whose life falls apart when he finds out his life story. There are a number of characteristics described by Aristotle that identify a tragic hero. Oedipus is viewed as a good person he isn't favored or more favored over any other person. He holds the position of King and he is held to a higher standard. As a King, Oedipus is as of now viewed as to some degree a legend in his very own right. However, this does make him completely happy in life. He settled on choices that at last encouraged the movements that happened in his life. Instead of hiding his sins, like many probably would have done, he faced the consequences of his actions. He accepted them without a single whine, and for that he is the perfect tragic hero. Oedipus is the tragic hero and main character of Sophocles' play. He is the cause of many deaths and sufferings, whether directly or indirectly force them. Oedipus is portrayed as a loving person, taking good care of his people and doing whatever he can to ease their pains. After realizing his mistakes and suffering the consequences, he became even more humble and kind, but with weak spirit and mind. He had a short temper and flared out with suspicion and distrust. This occurred first when Teiresias accused him of killing, and later when Oedipus suspected both Creon and the blind prophet of plotting against him Half of his tragic flaw is anger, as it caused him to kill his father. The death of his father is a very large part of his downfall. Another flaw is his pride, as he refuses to accept his fate. His weakness is often described as a lack of strength, power, or ambition. However, there are rare cases where a weakness can instead be an abundance of these qualities that ends up becoming

hostile. In the Greek play, Oedipus has an extra buildup of determination and might that support three major flaws in his character. Despite his attributes and qualifications that secured him his title as King of Thebes, Oedipus’s absence of wisdom, his impulsiveness, and his arrogant behavior end up bringing about his hopeless fate. The play Oedipus the King by Sophocles attempts to portray Oedipus, King of Thebes as an extremely powerful and dignified man. Throughout the play, the classic story of Oedipus comes to life and the people reading the play comes to see that no matter how bad Oedipus' life seems to get, he steadily maintains his dignity and trustworthiness. Oedipus has an extraordinary focal strength. His main strength, however, is his intelligence. Oedipus first shows us to be a confident and powerful hero when he solves the confusion of the Sphinx. In spite of the way that the Sphinx undermined anybody to death who addressed the problem erroneously, Oedipus was resolved and here was the point at which we see his heroism. After correctly resolving the problem the Sphinx liberates the city of Thebes and Oedipus turns out to be broadly known for his bravery driving him to progress toward becoming King. This strength is his interest or at the end of the day his fact looking for enthusiasm. It can be named as being a piece of him. This is first seen after he gets a tip of his actual Identify. Since he needed to truly know reality behind everything, he is seen visiting different prophets just to discover reality. Despite the fact that Oedipus has an awful temper, which he shows often to those near him, Oedipus also has a caring side. Oedipus' sympathetic side is demonstrated when he addresses the residents of Thebes. Oedipus tells the citizens that he comprehends their issues, and that he feels sorry for them. Oedipus says that despite the fact that every person thinks about themselves and for their good health, he is weeping and thinks about the entire city, for himself and the majority of the people.

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Oedipus is a tragic hero even though he didn't die because of the facts described by Aristotle gratifies the character of Oedipus. In this story the character's conceit and self-centrism has caused him an alternate purpose, drawing consideration of the gatherings of people on the issues that the human practices directly influence the people feelings as Oedipus blinded his eyes without anyone else's input following to discovering reality. He was simply ready to support someone yet, as it was defeated from his certainty and pleased, the story can control the group of viewers feeling and make feel frustrated about the character despite the fact that it is as of now known to the gatherings of people that Oedipus wasn't right, as observed from his sure and glad activities. Therefore, judging from Oedipus’ self-assessment which ends in a lifetime of misery, shame and exile for the major character is clearly a tragedy. Where fate had left a fracture on the fabrics of life, character has completed its ruin.

Queen Jocasta doesn't believe Tiresias when he says Oedipus is the murderer. Once, an oracle told her that her husband would be killed by their child, and because (she thinks) that hasn't come true, she doesn't believe Timesavers ago, to prevent her child from killing her husband, Jocasta left her infant child to die on the side of the road. Oedipus suspects that he was that abandoned baby. When he first came to Thebes, he met and killed a man on the road who turned out to be Laius, his father. He then met and married the widowed Jocasta, his own mother. A messenger and a servant confirm the tale. Jocasta hangs herself out of shame. Oedipus discovers her body and uses the pins of her brooches to stab out his own eyes.

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