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OEDIPUS REX

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Total Pages: 2.49
Total Words: 622
Total Characters: 2925
Number of Sentences: 46

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Words per Sentences: 13.52
Characters per Words: 4.7

Readability

Flesch Reading Ease: 71.11
Fog Scale Level: 9.33
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.7

OEDIPUS REX

     In the story of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles portrays the main

character, Oedipus, as a good natured person that has bad

judgment and frailty.  Oedipus makes a few bad decisions and is

condemned to profound suffering because of his pride.  I agree

with Aristotle that he brings it all on to himself because of his own

personal pride.

     One day Oedipus finds out that there is a prophecy that

depicts him killing his father and marrying his mother.  The

prophecy may have been proven untrue if he wouldn’t have put

himself on such a high pedestal.  It all started one day when he met

up with King Laius:

              Seated in it.  The groom leading the horses
          Forced me off the road at his lord’s command;
          But as this charioteer lurched over towards me
          I struck him in my rage...I killed him (1.2.764-772).

Oedipus met the King Laius on a bridge and was too proud to let

him pass first, and then the King pushed him out of the way.  In a

fit of rage, Oedipus killed him.  All the while, an old man,

Teiresias, knew that it was King Laius that Oedipus had killed.

Oedipus didn’t even know that it was King Laius that he killed.  In

the future, when Teiresias tries to convince Oedipus that he is the

killer, Oedipus turns him away and calls him a liar and blames it

all on him:

                               And I’ll tell you what I think:
          You planned it, you had it done, you all but
          Killed him with your own hands: if you had eyes,
          I’d say that the crime was yours, and yours alone.
                                                     (1.2.331-334)

Teiresius is a blind prophet, and it is possible that if Oedipus had

listened to him in the first place, his internal suffering may have

been much less severe.  He should have accepted what he had to

say as fact no matter how unbelievable.

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