Tragic flaw of Oedipus Rex

The tragic flaw of Oedipus The Greeks considered tragedy the greatest form for literature. Many readers today would agree. Is a tragedy’s end fate? Or is it tragic flaw? Unlike the critic’s opinion being that one cannot pinpoint Oedipus’ tragic flaw, I disagree. I think that we can pick out, just by carefully reading and analyzing the play, that Oedipus indeed had a tragic flaw. It is for this reason that we can …

…rest of his life. What makes us human is making mistakes, suffering the consequences of them, and then learning from those mistakes. Only then can we really say that we have lived a good life. As the very last statement from the Chorus says, “we must wait, and see his end, scrutinize his dying day, and refuse to call him happy till he has crossed the border of his life without p! ain.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**