Oedipus - He tried and failed. :: Classics

Oedipus - He tried and failed.Oedipus is hotshot of the most famous sad char coiffureers of Greek drama.Sophocles, a famous composer of tragic Greek drama, wrote Oedipus theKing. In this drama, Oedipus is just a smashing business leader try to helper hispeople by punishing a criminal for a certain crime he committed. Eventhough he tries so hard not to do what was foretold that he would do,he ends up doing it either the same. He was innocent of the recognizeledge ofwhat he was doing, but guilty of the act he commits. He is a good kingin exhausting to help his people, without his knowing it, he is the causeof the problem he is act to solve, and when he tries to avoid theunavoidable, he finds that he is the reason for the problem.Oedipus is a good king, just trying to save his people by removing theplague. In his enterprise at trying to be the savior of his people, hecondemns the man who killed the reason king. He wants to punish thatman because he is the reason for the plag ue that is harming hispeople. He says, Whoever he was that killed the king may readily wishto dispatch me with his murderous hand so helping the dead king Ihelp myself. (161-4) What he does not realize is that he is theculprit, the reason for the problem, and because he is way outunpunished, the plague had continued.When Oedipus is a young adult, he goes to the oracle of Apollo, whotells him that he bequeath one day kill his father and marry his mother.Oedipus, who has no report that he is adopted at the time, flees hishome in fear that he will cause harm to the parents he loves. After heleaves Delphi, the hind end of the oracle, he meets a man in a chariotwhose charioteer tells him to run aside. When he refuses, the otherman attacks him, and then Oedipus turns and kills them all. He comesto Thebes the people were chthonic siege by a Sphinx. After he saves thetown, he is attached the queen, Jocasta, to be his wife as a reward. Whathe does not know was that the one of the men he killed was his fatherand the woman that he marries is his mother.Oedipus the king never considers what he had done, until he hearscertain pieces of information and starts to piece things together. Hefinds out that what was foretold to him, his killing his father and