Part one of term paper
, a tragic victim of fate, easily meets the criteria of the tragic hero. According to Aristotle, a tragic hero can not be extremely virtuous or evil, they must be on the middle ground. This is true of Oedipus, in the eye of the public, he is a concerned, caring individual, but he is also capable of atrocities. He does have the blood of his ...

Part two of term paper
... to qualify him as an individual with a tragic flaw. He also seems to be a rather arrogant individual, another characteristic capable of being a tragic flaw. This can be derived from the way Oedipus speaks. Oedipus also goes through a reversal of fortune, another characteristic of a tragic hero. It look as if he has a solution to the problem Thebes faces, when in fact he is the problem. This is hidden from him, when he is made aware of this, and the atrocities he has committed, he endures gr ...