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Oedipus The King: A Tragic Hero
Part one of term paper
The downfall of a hero follows from his very nature. In Sophocles
play, Oedipus the King, (reprinted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia,
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York,
NY 1995), the playwright focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes,
who is trying to discover the truth about his past. W ...
Part two of term paper
... and is informed that one day he will kill his father and
sleep with his mother. He flees his home for fear that he is a danger to
his parents safety. The frightened Oedipus travels to Thebes, but on the
journey he becomes engaged in a quarrel. He kills King Laios and Laios' men
not realizing that the king is his biological father. Af ter reaching
Thebes he becomes the new king by solving a riddle and lifting a plaque
from the city. Oedipus quickly marries a woman named Iocaste, the queen,
and t ...
Word count: 874 | Approximate pages: 4
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