Oedipus The King

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Oedipus the King
In the play Oedipus The King, I will apply the concept of the tragic hero to the character Oedipus. The perception of the tragic hero evokes our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a mixture of both. The tragic effect is stronger if the hero is more moral than we are. The tragic hero suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, which he performs due to his hamartia error of judgment. A form of hamartia is hubris 'pride' which leads the tragic hero to ignore or violate a divine warning or moral law. The tragic hero evokes our pity because he is not evil and his misfortune is greater than he deserves. He evokes our fear because we realize we are fallible and could make the same error. It would appear from this definition that Oedipus could be described as a tragic hero.

Oedipus was the hero of Thebes. He was considered to be a man of noble stature.

Oedipus was of an illustrious family,...

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