Oedipus the King: Reason and Passion
In the play, Oedipus the King, there are dual parts of reason and
passion. Oedipus primarily acts with both reason and
passion at different stages in the play.
There are several points in the play where Oedipus acts with
reason. The first such point occurs when he is asked by his
followers to help save Thebes. He acts with reason when he
immediately decides to heed to their demands and find help for
them. However, he may also have been deciding to do this through
passion. His need for his land to be perfectly normal might have
prompted this immediate decision.
Reason also occurs through the character of Oedipus himself. He
has a heroic confidence in his own abilities, and he has good
reason for such confidence, both from his own sense of past
achievements and from the very high regard everyone has of those
achievements. He is conscious of himself as a great man. He feels
he can achieve anything.
The central metaphor in this play is blindness. For the tragic
hero is, in a sense, blind from the start, at least in the sense
that he is not alert to the fact that the way he sees his
situation may not be true, may be only a partial take on the
reality of things. Oedipus is not prepared to admit that he might
be wrong. Why should he? He has always been right in the past; no
one else in Thebes is acting resolutely to meet the crisis, any
more than they were when the city was threatened before. His
vision may well include a certain narrowness, and yet because he
sees the world that way, he is also the one with the most
confidence in his own sight and the one most ready to act in
accordance with what he sees. The way he sees the world lies at
the very source of what makes him now, and in the past, a great
man. Those around him rely upon that confidence in order for the
crisis to be dealt with.
It is ironic that the only way that the curse will be lifted from
Thebes is by finding the murderer of Laius. Oedipus starts on a
powerful trip to find the murderer, and this ends up throwing him
into a passionate search within himself to find the truth.
Because Oedipus will not compromise, and will only go after the
Oedipus can be argued to be a sympathetic ruler of his people, "my heart must bear the strain of sorrow for all." (4). He shows a strong desire to rid the land of its despair. Yet as the reader captures a more in-depth glimpse into Oedipus' soul, we find him to be a jealous, stubborn, "blind", guilty, and sinful man. Oedipus' character outwardly seems to want nothing more than to find the guilty persons involved in the murder of Laius, yet when given obvious clues he turns a blind eye, not wanting to know the truth behind the prophecy.
In the beginning, in which Teiresias is explaining to Oedipus, Teiresias is trying to convince Oedipus about the danger he has with Thebes at that moment. This leads to the Prophecy being correct. Oedipus is bringing the city of Thebes to an end as
Oedipus’ personality clearly reflects pride and determination throughout the play. When Oedipus heard the oracles’ prediction that he was to kill his father and marry his mother, he was determined to prevent the prophecy. Therefore he left his homeland of Corinth never to return. Then when he solved the Sphinx’s riddle, Oedipus’ pride rose to a new level. He was praised by the people of Thebes, resulting in his marriage to Jocasta, Queen of Thebes. Oedipus also shows his determination when in search of Laius’ murderer. He stated that he would avenge the King’s death as if Laius were his own father. He cursed the murderer, announcing “May he drag out an evil death-in-life in misery.” These characteristics of pride and determination, which Oedipus emanates throughout the play, may appear to be positive attributes to one’s personality. However, Oedipus’ actions, based on these characteristics, are what led him to his eventual downfall and suffrage.
The play "Oedipus Rex" is a very full and lively one to say the least. Everything a reader could ask for is included in this play. There is excitement, suspense, happiness, sorrow, and much more. Truth is the main theme of the play. Oedipus cannot accept the truth as it comes to him or even where it comes from. He is blinded in his own life, trying to ignore the truth of his life. Oedipus will find out that truth is rock solid. The story is mainly about a young man named Oedipus who is trying to find out more knowledge than he can handle. The story starts off by telling us that Oedipus has seen his moira, his fate, and finds out that in the future he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother. Thinking that his mother and father were Polybos and Merope, the only parents he knew, he ran away from home and went far away so he could change his fate and not end up harming his family. Oedipus will later find out that he cannot change fate because he has no control over it, only the God's can control what happens. Oedipus is a very healthy person with a strong willed mind who will never give up until he gets what he wants. Unfortunately, in this story these will not be good trait to have.
In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus is depicted as a morally ambiguous character; neither purely evil or purely good. Oedipus runs from his fate initially to prevent himself from pursuing what he believed was his fate; however, he is lead straight towards his real fate. He kills his biological father as he is headed to Thebes, where he takes the throne. Once he has taken the throne, he begins to try and save his city from the plague by looking for the murder of king Laius. However, what he does not know is that the prophet has told him who has slew the king; therefore, he presents his ignorance as a leader. Not only does his ignorance create the flawed character inside himself, but it also causes him to run from his fate. The significance of Oedipus being a morally ambiguous character is that he cannot run from his fate
Oedipus is the head investigator for the murder of King Laius. Even though he tells the people of Thebes that, "I am ready to help." He promises the people that he would do anything t...
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