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In Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", the theme of irony plays an important part throughout the play. In the play, Oedipus Rex believes that if he leaves Corinth he will be able to avoid his fate. The oracle says the Oedipus will kill his father and bear children with his mother. Eventually, he unknowingly kills his father in a chance meeting and married his mother. Oedipus remains clueless that the oracle's prediction has come to pass. The play is a tragedy, and Oedipus is a tragic hero because he has an act of injustice, because his downfall is the result of his own fault, because he gains and as well as loses.

In the first section, lines 1315-1339, we know that Oedipus' downfall is the result of his own fault and his own edict. He blinds himself and faces to be expelled to his country because of murdering his father. "If I had eyes, I do not know how I could hear the sight" (1317-1318). The word "sight" means the ability to see, and here it implies having the courage to face his......

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