Part one of term paper
“OEDIPUS THE KING” The feature of the tragic hero as exemplified in Sophecles’ “Oedipus the King” makes the tragic character a great paradox. For unlike most, the tragic hero emerges as anything but a social person. He may begin that way, motivated by a genuine desire to help the community, as Oedipus, but what e ...

Part two of term paper
... being right, seeing things through to the very end. What Sophoclean tragedy insists upon, however, is that this attitude, this ultimate expression of my own freedom to express myself, to demand from the world that it answer to my conceptions of myself, leads by a step-by-step inevitability to self-destruction. For the cosmos is a fatally mysterious place, not particularly compatible with such heroic self-assertion. And the human being who sets himself or herself up to live life only on their own ...