Oedipus Rex

Oedipus the King Oedipus the King is a great play whose qualities of inscrutability and of pervasive ironically quickly come to complicate any critical discussion(). Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King fits into a tragedy because it recounts the events in the life of Oedipus Rex, arouses pity and fear in the audience, and ends in an unhappy catastrophe (Harmon). Oedipus’ life began in Thebes as the son of Laius and Jocasta. Apollo had placed a …

…cried out that his eyes should no longer be able to look upon his crimes; before, his eyes had seen those they should not have seen, and failed to recognize those they ought to have recognized (Buxton, 109). Oedipus leads Athens blinded and being lead away by his daughters. Oedipus the King end s up being a great tragedy. Its plot, the arousing of pity and fear in the audience, and the ending as a catastrophe.