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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 3245 | Pages: 13.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus Rex
In Sophocles’s play “Oedipus Rex” Oedipus Even though "fate" seems to determine Oedipus' life,
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he does infact have a free will. His choices brought the prophecy to life. Only his decisions (not influenced by anybody) he made. Of course those decisions were in side of the limits set by fate. When Oedipus heard a prophesy that his going to kill his father and sleep with his mother he ran away, even when he new …showed first 75 words of 3245 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3245 total…Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother by
the oracle, he only stated what he knew was inevitable because of who
Oedipus was.
The sphinx's riddle was used by Sophocles to characterize Oedipus
as a tragic man and as a parallel to his life. The riddle describes
the 3 stages which Oedipus went through in his life. Also in answering
the riddle Oedipus inevitable brought about his own tragic ending by a
horrible discovery.
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