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Aristotle was a philosopher who had an important insight into the nature of tragedies. He’s definition of a typical tragic hero was that a hero is a man of noble stature, he is great but not perfect, and he’s downfall is his own fault caused by his own free choice. In Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, all these characteristics were shown by Oedipus, the main character.
First of all, Aristotle said that the tragic hero is a man of noble stature. Likewise, Oedipus was a son of Laius, the king of Thebes. At the end, Oedipus confesses, “…me, declared abominable of heaven, and Laius’ son.�(49) Even when he was left alone in the mountain, he was found by a man and adapted by Polybus, the king of Corinth. Also, he was very intelligent that his intelligence brought him the crown. When the Thebes was in a great famine because of the Sphinx, Oedipus solved the riddle of Sphinx. That caused her to open the gate and kill herself, and Oedipus became a king of Thebes and a husband......

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