Oedipus Paper

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November 29, 2014

 

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Aristotle taught that knowing the truth about ones self is the highest truth. Clearly borrowing from this idea was Sophocles in his play "Oedipus Rex." In the play the main character, Oedipus, is on a search for the truth about the murderer of King Laios, in the process he begins to become easily angered which seems to contradict his normally pompous and well tempered attitude, however he does not know that this truth will also reveal the truth about himself, or the ultimate truth...
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So the noble King Oedipus took it upon himself to find the killer. He issued a decree to the people of Thebes to tell the unknown murderer saying, "I pray that that man's life be consumed in evil and wretchedness"(p14). Oedipus was diligent in his search for this truth about the killer; he was so very serious that he himself would also undergo the same punishment if he were found guilty...
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