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Oedipus The King (Drama Play)
Name Subject Professor Time The story Oedipus the King has been known for its tragedy . Sophocles gave us a hero in the character of Oedipus who shows a greatness and strength of a man in body and mind . He is the main character in the story who undertakes a fight with faith and destiny . Oedipus was born to the king and queen of Thebes , Laius and Jocasta . An awful and terrifying divine curse hung over with the baby boy . The royal couple learns from an oracle that king Laius is
doomed to perish in the hands of his own son and that he will marry his own mother and bear children . The King so ed his wife , Jocasta to kill the infant . Hesitant to do so , the queen instead demanded a servant to commit the act of killing for her The servant however in his conscience abandoned the baby in the fields leaving the child 's fate to the gods . Oedipus was eventually taken in and raised in the court of the childless king of Corinth . Oedipus in his future proceedings learned the terrible prophecy from the Delphic oracle that is to become a father killer . Shocked with what he has discovered he decided not to go back to Corinth and took a path to Thebes instead since he wanted to prevent his parents and himself from a disgrace unknowing that the parents who have raised him weren 't his biological parents
On the way to Thebes , Oedipus killed his...
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