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 focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes,
who is trying to discover the truth about his pas ....
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.... 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 king and eventually discovers that
Iocaste is really his own mother. In a Greek tragedy the hero is a
character amply capable of choices, ....
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Number of words: 874
Number of pages: 4 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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