Essay About Oedipus Rex And Individuals Pride

Oedipus Rex Criticalresponse
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Acceptance or Doom: An Analysis of Sophocles “Oedipus Rex”
In the story “Oedipus Rex,” by Sophocles, the author suggests that ones fate
cannot be altered, but if an individuals pride and arrogance make the individual try
to change his/her fate, the person becomes hubristic and at the end the person
realizes fate cannot be changed and the persons fate happens the way it was
supposed to happen. If people belief in fate and at some point in peoples life an
individual discovers what his/her fate is, the person should just accept their fate
and not try to change destiny.
Oedipuss ability to solve problems is shown when the sphinx was in Thebes and
Oedipus, “the simple man,” solved the sphinxs riddle. When Oedipus describes
himself as “simple” he is being sarcastic and is implying that he is smarter than all
Thebans which is true and shows his intelligence. Oedipus was proud of being
intelligent and that he solved the sphinxs riddle because “no birds helped” him;
birds were known for helping the gods oracles to see the future or an individuals
fate. His pride of solving the sphinxs riddle makes him feel superior to other
human beings, which makes him arrogant. Oedipus demonstrates his arrogance in
the moment he says that the sphinxs “magic,” that being its riddle, demanded a