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Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy: How this play fit into the "tragic" criteria.
Title: Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy: How this play fit into the "tragic" criteria.
Category: Literature
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Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy: How this play fit into the "tragic" criteria.
Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy
Oedipus Rex, written by Greek playwright Sophocles, is considered to be one of the most
ingenious yet disturbing plays ever to be written. This drama has greatly influenced Western
culture, as elements of this play can be seen throughout later literature, legend and language,
becoming the standard for all other tragedies to be compared. The tragic figure, in this case
Oedipus, is responsible for his own downfall. This leads to …showed first 75 words of 1664 total…
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faults. Despite these flaws, it is clear the tragic hero still has choices he can make. If this were not
the case, and it was simply a brute fate with its blind decrees working itself through the hero, we
would not have a tragedy. It is this combination of complicity and inevitability that is at the heart
of the tragedy and so much of what we call the human condition.
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