Part one of term paper
Oedipus the King is a great play whose qualities of inscrutability and of pervasive ironically quickly come to complicate any critical discussion(). Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King fits into a tragedy because it recounts the events in the life of , arouses pity and fear in the audience, and ends in an unhappy catastrophe (Harmon). ...

Part two of term paper
... to leave an infant in the woods to die, so he gave the infant to another man who took him to Polybus and Merope, king and queen of Athens, since they were not able to have kids. Oedipus grew up and learned that he was cursed. He left Athens believing that Polybus and Merope were his parents. He thought that if he moved away the curse would not come true. Oedipus left Athens and during his travels he ended up killing Laius and became the king of Thebes and married after answering the riddle. &# ...