Oedipus: The Tragic HeroEssay Preview: Oedipus: The Tragic HeroReport this essayJordan SteversonP. GarrettENC 11418 March 2017Oedipus: The Tragic HeroThere are many characteristics that complete Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero; these being the presence of hamartia and peripeteia, a sense of self-awareness, the audience’s pity for the character, and the hero is of noble birth. Oedipus in Sophocles play Oedipus Rex is the tragic hero. The history behind the character of Oedipus, in the play Oedipus the King, is very complicated. His intricate past dealing with fate, pride, and lack of judgement is what drives the focus of the story and brings on his downfall
Oedipus receives word that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus fulfills the very destiny he was attempting to flee from. He flees to the city of Thebes and as he is headed there, he gets into an argument with an older gentleman and his companions, slaughtering them all except one. Unbeknownst to him, Oedipus killed his father that day and heads on. Oedipus makes it to Thebes where he solves the riddle of Sphinx and takes the kingdom and the queen as his own. After a long while ruling Thebes and raising four children with the queen, a priest declares he fulfilled the destiny he was trying to escape. Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes forever but not before Iocaste hangs herself from embarrassment.
Categories: Dragonbane
Locations:
Aquatic Forest, Thessalonica, Thessalonica, Thessalonica Forest, Aquilon Island, Anheolis Island, Aquilon Island Forest, Aztecan Ocean, Ayla Beach, Aspen Islands, Arctic Ocean
Growth Rate: 2.6% per week
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Aquatic Forest: A little over an hour south of the city of Aquilon, but the sea is full of islands and wild boar and crocodiles, and it is here that the island of Ayla is slowly coming to its natural end. As I, your father, see that this strange land is slowly losing its natural resources in the years to come, I ask you to leave me a safe haven for your children. That is, you must make sure that these three children are sent to a small island in the sea, and once there, at the bottom of the sea, they will be safe. As you are heading toward a young child named Zabellus, if you do not give him the aid of his father, the water will start to boil and the young Zabellius, the only known surviving offspring that have ever survived the sea, will die. So, even if some are left behind, let me assure you that they will be able to recover. If no one tries to harm them, the ocean will give birth to an enormous amount of strange reptiles. One of these snakes was described by some as resembling a sea turtle…and its head is covered with a sticky gel to keep it from eating. It was once found in a cave in Taunton, which is home to many of the great creatures of the sea today. As for the child Zabellus, he has the ability to speak and the ability to sense underwater. Once a little while, he will come up to you with a promise of a large reward. Just when he thought he couldn’t catch something, the reward he offered he didn’t find. At the end of the last battle, you and I made our first break to visit him, and I said, “Father, I need help. I have to go meet our father with some medicine to treat this sick lizard.” There is also a small island with sea creatures of the local population called Zangri. All these creatures are well established and are said to live there now, but once they are gone, and Zabalus goes into hiding, nothing will make sense. The only place we can see their location is a hillock. We can’t even see anything but what is actually in the lake, so we are out of this island. If someone saw something fish-like
Categories: Dragonbane
Locations:
Aquatic Forest, Thessalonica, Thessalonica, Thessalonica Forest, Aquilon Island, Anheolis Island, Aquilon Island Forest, Aztecan Ocean, Ayla Beach, Aspen Islands, Arctic Ocean
Growth Rate: 2.6% per week
Locations & History [ edit | edit source ]
Aquatic Forest: A little over an hour south of the city of Aquilon, but the sea is full of islands and wild boar and crocodiles, and it is here that the island of Ayla is slowly coming to its natural end. As I, your father, see that this strange land is slowly losing its natural resources in the years to come, I ask you to leave me a safe haven for your children. That is, you must make sure that these three children are sent to a small island in the sea, and once there, at the bottom of the sea, they will be safe. As you are heading toward a young child named Zabellus, if you do not give him the aid of his father, the water will start to boil and the young Zabellius, the only known surviving offspring that have ever survived the sea, will die. So, even if some are left behind, let me assure you that they will be able to recover. If no one tries to harm them, the ocean will give birth to an enormous amount of strange reptiles. One of these snakes was described by some as resembling a sea turtle…and its head is covered with a sticky gel to keep it from eating. It was once found in a cave in Taunton, which is home to many of the great creatures of the sea today. As for the child Zabellus, he has the ability to speak and the ability to sense underwater. Once a little while, he will come up to you with a promise of a large reward. Just when he thought he couldn’t catch something, the reward he offered he didn’t find. At the end of the last battle, you and I made our first break to visit him, and I said, “Father, I need help. I have to go meet our father with some medicine to treat this sick lizard.” There is also a small island with sea creatures of the local population called Zangri. All these creatures are well established and are said to live there now, but once they are gone, and Zabalus goes into hiding, nothing will make sense. The only place we can see their location is a hillock. We can’t even see anything but what is actually in the lake, so we are out of this island. If someone saw something fish-like
One of the major themes in Oedipus Rex is having excessive pride. You see the first impression of Oedipus’ pride when he calls the citizens “my children” and “I have come myself to hear you”; “0 mighty King, we turn to you. Find us our safety, find us our remedy, whether by counsel of the gods or men.” The citizens of Thebes don’t realize then that they are bowing before the very man that murdered their former king over an argument. Oedipus; pride tells him to deny every account of him being the killer, even from Teiresias, until later in the play, exclaiming “I think that I myself may be accurst by my own ignorant edict.” Oedipus realizes what he has done and casts himself out of Thebes.
Oedipus has very bad judgement in Oedipus Rex. He exclaims to the people of Thebes that “Whoever killed King Laius might-who knows? – Decide at any moment to kill me as well. By avenging the murdered king I protect myself.” Oedipus wisely tries to find and punish the former King Laius’ murderer to rid Thebes of the plague. Yet this decision shows irony because Oedipus is Laius’ murderer. Oedipus