Oedipus - He tried and failed. :: Classics

Oedipus - He tried and failed.Oedipus is one of the most famous tragic characters of Greek drama.Sophocles, a famous composer of tragic Greek drama, wrote Oedipus theKing. In this drama, Oedipus is besides a good king move to help hispeople by vindicateing a criminal for a certain crime he committed. Eventhough he tries so hard not to do what was foretold that he would do,he ends up doing it all the same. He was innocent of the knowledge ofwhat he was doing, but guilty of the act he commits. He is a good kingin trying to help his people, without his knowing it, he is the causeof the problem he is trying to solve, and when he tries to avoid theunavoidable, he finds that he is the reason for the problem.Oedipus is a good king, just trying to save his people by removing theplague. In his attempt at trying to be the savior of his people, hecondemns the man who killed the former king. He wants to punish thatman because he is the reason for the plague that is harming hispeople. He says , Whoever he was that killed the king may readily wishto dispatch me with his murderous hand so component the dead king Ihelp myself. (161-4) What he does not realize is that he is theculprit, the reason for the problem, and because he is goingunpunished, the plague had continued.When Oedipus is a young adult, he goes to the oracle of Apollo, whotells him that he will one day kill his father and marry his mother.Oedipus, who has no idea that he is adopted at the time, flees hishome in fear that he will cause harm to the parents he loves. After heleaves Delphi, the place of the oracle, he meets a man in a chariotwhose charioteer tells him to move aside. When he refuses, the otherman attacks him, and then Oedipus turns and kills them all. He comesto Thebes the people were under siege by a Sphinx. After he saves thetown, he is stipulation the queen, Jocasta, to be his wife as a reward. Whathe does not know was that the one of the men he killed was his fatherand the woman that he marr ies is his mother.Oedipus the king neer considers what he had done, until he hearscertain pieces of information and starts to piece things together. Hefinds out that what was foretold to him, his killing his father and