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Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus the King is a great play whose qualities of inscrutability and of pervasive ironically quickly come to complicate any critical discussion(). Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King fits into a tragedy because it recounts the events in the life of , arouses pity and fear in the audience, and e ....
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.... are the curse, the corruption of the land."(Sophocles 833)
At first Oedipus thinks Creon put Tiresias up to say what he said. He questions Jocasta about the party Laius was traveling with and he starts to think that he might have killed Laius, so he sends for the survivor of the party traveling with Laius to find out for sure if it was Laius he killed. Then a messenger comes from Athens telling them that Polybus is dead from natural causes. Jocasta tries to comfort Oedipus by saying th.... |
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