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Oedipus: King Of Riddles?
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In Greek mythology the oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their
predictions of the future. Yet the characters still try to fight the
predictions. Do their personalities and traits decide their future, or does
fate take its course no matter what? Oedipus was a shrewd man furnished
with wit and int ....
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....p he walks upright on his two feet, and in old age he leans on a
staff.1 This puzzle is far more complex than Tiresias's rudimentary riddles,
so Oedipus has the ability to solve the riddles but cannot let himself do
so, because of his pomposity. Oedipus is so arrogant that he can't believe
that he could possibly have done anything wrong. He suffered from the sin
of hubris. That is, he was very vain, and conceited. No matter how
straightforward Tiresias's riddles were, Oedipus's pride wouldn't le.... |
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