Oedipus
In the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King Tiresias speaks the truth when he tells Oedipus, "You are your own worst enemy." He is too determined to find out that he is that shouldn't be so important to himself. He also, is too proud to listen to the gods. He thinks he can get out of following through on his fate. So, it is he that dooms himself. First of all, Oedipus is determined to discover who he is. He cannot accept things as they are and by stubbornly investigating his past, he is his own worst enemy by destroying his relationships and himself. When he was a young man he heard gossip that his father was not his real birth father. He was bothered to l
He doesn't want to live anymore because he married his mother and killed his father and so the oracle had come true. My family I shall prove" (Oedipus page 60). He truly believed that his adopted parents were his real parents so he moved to Thebes so he wouldn't fulfill the oracle. When he finally realized that he killed a man that was old enough to be his father, he considered the fact that it could have been his father that he killed. He was determined to find out what his status was when he would have been better off if he did not care. "Storm, then, let it burst! Born from nothing though I be proved, let me find that nothing out. My fealty to that family makes me move true to myself. I believe that his pride was his biggest character flaw and because of his pride, the conclusion of the play was tragic. My birth all sprung revealed from those it never should, myself entwined with those I never could.
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