Oedipus Rex

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Cecilia M

 

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July 19, 2010

 

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He does have the blood of his own father on his hands. The fact that he did not know that he was killing his own father places him in the median between virtuous and evil. A tragic hero must also have a frailty, or tragic flaw. This is also true of Oedipus. The fact that he has murdered his father and fathered children with his mother are sufficiently adequate to qualify him as an individual with a tragic flaw...
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He also seems to be a rather arrogant individual, another characteristic capable of being a tragic flaw. This can be derived from the way Oedipus speaks. Oedipus also goes through a reversal of fortune, another characteristic of a tragic hero. It look as if he has a solution to the problem Thebes faces, when in fact he is the problem...
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