Sophocles wrote " Oedipus the King, " also known as " Oedipus.
             Rex," and "Oedipus at Colonus. " Although " Oedipus at Colonus " is looked
             at to be a continuation of " Oedipus the King, " the two do differ when dealing
             With the character himself, Oedipus. The question though being does Oedipus
             Achieve redemption by the end of the play?
             In " Oedipus the King, " Oedipus had fallen by the end of the play. His life
             had made a complete 360 after the truth was revealed about the murder of the
             King and his true father. However, in the continuation of the play, in " Oedipus at
             Colonus, " Oedipus begins to make a turn for the better. It was quoted that in
             the second play " the central theme is the transformation of Oedipus into a hero.
             In " Oedipus at Colonus, " Oedipus " struggled to acheive death and
             transformation in accordance with his oracle. " This was seen for the most part in
             Sophocles made his second edition of this play very dramatic. The play
             begins in misery. This misery helped teach Oedipus resignation....." asking little,
             receiving less than little, and content with that. "Oedpus, a suppliant, is in need of
             a savior, of which that being Theseus, to help save him from the pursued by his
             enemy ( Creon ). However, the " central paradox of this play is that the suppliant
             is destined to be the savior. " This was seen most clearly when dealing with the
             conflicts that took place within this play. There was a plea scene in which
             Oedipus ( suppliant ) commends himself to Theseus ( his savior ); an agon
             between Oedipus and Creon ( enemy ) ending in violence and an agon between
             Creon and Theseus, ending in Creon's expulsion and a battle sequence, ending in
             the salvation of Oedipus. All the misery and helplessness that typify a suppliant's
             condition are present in the character Oedipus, but as the drama begins to unfold
             slowly, it quickly becomes apparent t...