An Analysis of Oedipus the King :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

An Analysis of Oedipus the Kinghither is a story where Oedipus the King, who has complaisant great things in his life, discovers that the gods were only playing with him. He has everything a part of that time could want he is king of Thebes, he has a terrific wife and children, and great fame through out the lands. He has lived a levelheaded life, but in the end everything is taken from him.The priests of Thebes have come to Oedipus to stopover the beset that is killing the people of Thebes. They revere him for his knowledge, since he solved the soak of the Sphix objet darty years before and became the king. As the reader is introduced to Oedipus, they are given over many f figure outs about his life so that they become familiar with this man who has done great things. But Oedipus learns from his brother-in-law, Creon who he had sent to Delphi, that Apollo has placed this plague upon Thebes until they Drive the corruption from the land, dont harbor it any longer, past all cu re, dont control it in your soil - root it out Oedipus swears an oath before the priests and the chorus (which represents all people of Thebes) that the murderer would be found and driven from the land.Oedipus at the time does not realize that he has just condemned himself. By a strange twist of fate, Oedipus who was chuck out by his great father at birth and was raised in a foreign land, comes back to his plateful land and kills his father, Laius, and marries his own mother, Jocasta. All of this is unknown by Oedipus making him the sad hero conscious or unconscious of his intentional tragic act? Poor Oedipus discovers that he had killed his father and married his mother at the closing of the play when the Shepard is questioned. He states I stand revealed at last - cuss in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I jump down with these hands He then finds his mother after she has affiliated suicide and proceeds to gouge out his own eyes with her brooches. Here in lies the real tragedy of this play. Oedipus was ignorant of the fact that his father had discarded him at birth because of another prophets predictions, but the twist of fate reveals all, reprobate him to loose all things dear to him and to be pitied by the his loyal pursuit and the audience.