Tragedy lets people take a legitimate kind of pleasure while watching a noble man suffer. In this play Oedipus - the main character - is destined to kill his father Lauis and marry his mother Jocasta so his parents wanted him dead, the farmer was not able to let him dye so gave him to the messenger of king Polybus and lived his life away from his birth parents. As time went by without knowing it he ends up fulfilling his destiny. Watching a tragic story makes people feel somehow elated and not depressed. "Oedipus the King" is a great example of how it relates to big T tragedy, and an example of small t tragedy, and some people think it is boring. There is a great lesson to be learned here and that is why the play "Oedipus the King" has been one of the surviving plays from Greek drama still today.
             Aristotle's point of view on tragedy refers to Big T tragedy - what happens in books - the literary definition. Big T tragedy shows how royalty has a big change in their lives. Which means something tragic usually happens and they are thrown down from their position of king/queen. That was exactly what happened to Oedipus, he lost the throne and was exiled. Aristotle also says that the protagonist always has a tragic flaw - a weakness - that makes them suffer a lot and never lets them live in happiness. A perfect example of this is ex governor Gray Davis. He was thrown down from office because he had a tragic flaw. He did not help/ satisfy the American people of California the way everyone thought he would. So they elected a new governor that they thought would fulfill their hopes for California. That was something that Oedipus was not going to be able to do because he was the cause of the plague. Governor Gray Davis was not going to be able to fulfill his duties because everyone doubted him already and blamed him for what was going on with the electricity problem. Those things
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