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Irony in Oedipus the King

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English

 

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September 14, 2013

 

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When the audience and reader share the playwright's particular social perception and social values they easily empathize and relate with the fall of the protagonist (main character) from a prominent and high position into a state of misery or total destruction. On the other hand, Aristotle defined the term ?tragedy' as "a man not preeminently virtuous and just, whose misfortune, however, is brought upon? by some error in judgment? the change in the hero's fortune must not be from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery...
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On the other hand, Aristotle defined the term ?tragedy' as "a man not preeminently virtuous and just, whose misfortune, however, is brought upon? by some error in judgment? the change in the hero's fortune must not be from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery." Sophocles' Oedipus the King is a good example of a tragedy...
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