Part one of term paper
Oedipus Rex , a classic example of irony in a play. The way Sophocles wrote the story it was meant to be a tragedy. The main character (as defined) is supposed to come to some revealation about himself and his faults . His fault that would cost him everything .All the things that make a tragedy are of course present in the play but it has a ...

Part two of term paper
... he threatens banishment as a consequence against the killer , not knowing he himself is the killer of the killer . So basicly he doomed himself . The plot begins in the present time when he is trying to rescue his city so to speak but before he was King he was a child that was prophesized to kill his father and marry his mother . His wife Jocasta knew all of the latter but had no idea that Oedipus was her son . Through a series of questions and answers she comes to find it out and because of it ki ...