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Through Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero, it can be inferred that Oedipus is a tragic hero because of three main reasons: he discove his fate by his own actions, he falls from great esteem and his story arises fear and empathy. With all these attributes, Oedipus directly fits Aristotle’s definition.
Oedipus discovers his fate not by things happening to him but instead by his own actions. Oedipus would have probably never learned that he was Laois’s murderer if he had not called on Teresias. This action uncovered the truth because it had not yet occurred to him that he could be the murderer until Teiresias said, “You are the murderer of the king whose murderer you seek� (pg.441). Since it caused him to doubt his innocence, he made a greater effort to separate the truth from lies. When he asked Jocasta about Laios’s murder, it further uncovered his fate because she made him doubt his innocence even more and revealed that there was a servant that could put an end......

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