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Oedipus Rex, a tragic victim of fate, easily meets the criteria of the
tragic hero. According to Aristotle, a tragic hero can not be extremely
virtuous or evil, they must be on the middle ground. This is true of Oedipus,
in the eye of the public, he is a concerned, caring individual, but he is also
capable of atrocities. He does have the blood of his own father on his hands.
The fact that he did not know that he was killing his own father places him
in the median between virtuous and evil.
A tragic hero must also have a frailty, or tragic flaw. This is also true
of Oedipus. The fact that he has murdered his father and fathered children
with his mother are sufficiently adequate to qualify him as an individual
with a tragic flaw. He also seems to be a rather arrogant individual, another
characteristic capable of being a tragic flaw. This can be derived from the
way Oedipus speaks.
Oedipus also goes through a reversal of fortune, another characteristic......

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