Monday 18 March 2013

In Oedipus Rex, please help identify two instances of indirect characterization of Oedipus. Please include quotes and references.

Sincefollowed closely the tragic structure
that required the tragic Hero to have a tragic flaw, it is important, when considering examples
to answer your question, to identify that ' tragic flaw was his rash and prideful quick
temper.

Beginning on line 673,says to Oedipus:


I see you sulk in yielding and you're dangerous

when you are out of
temper; natures like yours

are justly heaviest for themselves to
bear.

And earlier,the seer, says (from line
338):

You blame me my temper but you do not see


your own that lives within you

The reason that
it is important the theseobserve that Oedipus is sort-tempered and rash, is that this is the
quality that prompted him to murder his father, Laius, when he met him at a crossroads and
neither would give way to let the other pass.

It was that murder that led him
to Thebes and(his mother) and the kingship that would be his undoing.


 

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