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Fate's Triumph - College Term Papers

Fate's Triumph

Fate's Triumph

Oedipus, the fated tragic hero of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, is a complex character who, through slow realization, learns that one cannot escape fate. Throughout the course of the tragedy, Oedipus’s attitude evolves from arrogance to humbleness as he learns to seek for truth and finds that fate is impossible to control.
In the beginning of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is a strong, noble king in search of justice for the slain former King Laios. Oedipus is both arrogant and ignorant of his future misfortune. “With the help of God, we shall be saved,” Oedipus proclaims in the Prologue. However, Oedipus quickly becomes confrontational when Teiresias, the blind prophet, accuses ...

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to the reality of Teiresias’s prophecy.
Oedipus remains enraged with Teriesias and Creon, after accusing Creon of being a murderer and trying to steal the throne. However, Jocasta tells Oedipus that an oracle once told Laios “his doom would be death at the hands of his own son,” but “his child had not been three days old before the King had pierced the baby’s ankles and left him to die on a mountainside.” (632-637) With this new information, Oedipus’s anger softens to contemplation as he recalls “a shadowy memory” (632-637) that “chilled [his] heart.” (632-637) After asking Jocasta to detail what Laios looked like and the number of men that escorted the King, Oedipus abandons his hostility and finally, after comprehension of the new facts, declares “I think that I myself may be accurst by my own ignorant edict.” (632-637) Unfortunately, Oedipus remains unaware that the new information makes him the murderer of Laios. Instead, Oedipus is still unsure and asks to talk to the sole ...

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Added: 4/25/2011 08:22:48 AM
Submitted By: bsmall25
Category: Film & Theater
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