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Oedipus The King 3
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Oedipus the King “Ankle Theory”
The classification of “Oedipus the King” as a tragedy requires it to meet certain criteria pertaining to the main character, Oedipus. Oedipus must have no control over the situation which he is in, he has to have been harmed by someone for doi ....
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..... Once again this displays the symbolism of his ankles being pierced as a child, meeting the second of the three criteria.
Finally, in the end, as in all Greek tragedies, Oedipus must come to an unhappy ending in which he dies, or is utterly lost. The symbolism here under the ankle piercing is also the first step to his bad end, since if his father did not take Oedipus out to the woods and pierce him, then leave him to die, Oedipus would never have killed his father nor married his mother. Just .... |
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