Tragic Flaws Of Oedipus

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English

 

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Karen B

 

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April 28, 2015

 

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University

 

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Sophocles showed the play-watchers Oedipus's life in the beginning as a "privileged, exalted [person] who [earned his] high repute and status by?intelligence." Then, the great playwright reached in and violently pulled out the audience's most sorrowful emotions, pity and fear, in showing Oedipus's "crushing fall" from greatness...
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That was the purpose of all ancient Greek drama: it was meant as "a dramatic reminder of [their] own mortality". Sophocles used his plays in order to force people to learn at other's mistake. Oedipus is a perfect example. His tragic flaws, persistence and ignorance caused his inevitable doom Oedipus's persistence is seen even from the beginning of Oedipus Rex...
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