Oedipus Rex
With time slowly passing by, and the plague eating away at the peoples' hope, Oedipus sends Kreon to Delphi in search for a remedy. Unknowingly, Oedipus has no idea that the awful plague was brought about by him. Fate is the inevitable order that Oedipus forgets to realize. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' traits demonstrate how his inevitable fate would draw closer to him toward the end of the story. Oedipus' character traits are seen in the beginning, for example, when Teiresias tested Oedipus' patience with the information he was holding; "You'd try a stones patience! Out with it." This impatient accusing of Teiresias proved to be bad, especially since Teiresias later told the ending of the story. If Oedipus would have b
As the plot thickened up to the climax, Oedipus persisted the shepherd to speak as he (Oedipus) was " of dreadful hearing, yet he must hear" more. Oedipus began claiming that Kreon had brought a dishonest fortuneteller to mean that Teiresias was though of as a traitor in Oedipus' thinking. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' traits of anger, haste, and truthfulness, each accelerate his decline of power and proves hi fate. Later, this person whom he angrily and quickly killed, was revealed to be Laios, Oedipus' father. To accept fate is to be part of the law, which rules the universe. If Oedipus would have hid all the facts concerning him, he could have easily hidden this and nobody would know that he killed his father nor had children with his mother. This trait was the one that brought Oedipus' downfall. Oedipus' anger also quickly shifted his judgment of Teiresias. een more patient and waited, he might have not been as mad about the future. Another trait that took his position of high authority was his anger, for example when he said "I struck him in my rage. During his speedy downfall, he said that he was " a simple man, who knows nothing", but really knowing more than he realizes. To go against it means disrupting this order and taking the consequences of one's actions. His fall from his high status was not by accident, but by himself. Unfortunately, for Oedipus, the loss of power led to the plucking of his eyes.
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