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Oedipus The King

Sophocles uses a mixture of both visual and emotional imagery to create the morally questioning Greek tragedy ‘Oedipus Tyrannos'. He presents the audience with an intense drama that addresses the reality and importance of the gods that the Greeks fervently believed in. "Sophocles holds that for mortals, modesty is the safest and most decent frame of mind. His gods will not abide our question" (Sheppard, 46). The play also forces the audience to ask themselves if there is such a concept as fate. What Oedipus does, what he says, and even who he is can sometimes be ironic. This irony can help us to see the character of Oedipus as truly a 'blind' man, or a wholly 'public' man.
From the very beginning of Oedipus, it is made clear "that his destiny be one of fate and worse." "His religious scruples, his obedience to the oracle, his patriotic energy, destroy him." (Sheppard, 69) The irony is that Oedipus unknowingly and repeatedly predicts his own fate: "It was I who called down......


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