Oedipus as a Tragic Figure

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Kathryn B

 

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February 1, 2016

 

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As a result, readers of the Greek plays have different thoughts about the "tragic hero" of the story. Often, they assume that because something bad or dreadful happened to the character, he must be a tragic character, thus missing a key part of the Greek's definition of the word: that a tragic hero must have made a decision, placing him in his fate to suffer a downfall...
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Often, they assume that because something bad or dreadful happened to the character, he must be a tragic character, thus missing a key part of the Greek's definition of the word: that a tragic hero must have made a decision, placing him in his fate to suffer a downfall. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, modern readers quickly assume that Oedipus is a tragic hero...
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