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Oedipus the Tragedy
Title: Oedipus the Tragedy
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 722 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus the Tragedy
Oedipus the Tragedy
Imagine the pain of discovering that you had unknowingly murdered your father and then
married your widowed mother! This was the discovery made by the main character in Sophocles’
Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, when he sets out to seek his true identity.
The philosopher Aristotle explains in his book The Poetics, that a tragic play arouses the
emotions of pity, fear, wonder and awe in the audience. The plot must be complex, …showed first 75 words of 722 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 722 total…revealing a truth to awful to bear. He does everything within his power to escape his fate, and he thinks that he does not need the gods. Oedipus should have known better than anyone, that man cannot control his own destiny. Oedipus Rex contains ideas with which all later definitions of tragedy comes to terms. Its complex plot, its tragic hero and
Oedipus’s tortured suffering, meet and exceed the parameters of classical Greek tragedy.
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