Oedipus And Fences

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, and Fences, by August Wilson, are two bulky tragedies by two outstanding playwrights. The two stories seem intertwined by the great characters that they center around. Although the stories of Oedipus and Troy are separated by centuries, the characters are almost identical. Different backgrounds, different cultures, and different adversaries do not affect the manner and behavior of the main characters. If nought else, the pride in each of the characters make the two so much more alike and inseparable, even into death. I set aside for begin by examining pride many centuries ago in a land called Thebes.

Sophocles Oedipus Rex revolves around the story of Oedipus, who now is poof of Thebes, searching for the murderer of the past king. The tragedy is not so much that Oedipus is the murderer and committing incest with his mother. After all, he was fated to do so, and Oedipus commits these crimes unknowingly. The real tragedy of Oedipus is his trying to defy his destiny and combine the troubles with his pride. Oedipus has the chance to stop the search for the murderer before the investigating starts. Even blind Teiresias, who tells Oedipus that he is the guilty party, wants Oedipus to stop although Teiresias terminate see the outcome and knows Oedipus destiny.



It is Oedipus pride that, in telling the members of his judicatory that he will search for the murderer, leads him down the ever dwindling path to the truth and his pride that will not allow him to stop the search.

Even though common sense would bring down that a sane man stop the search subsequently a few of the facts that Oedipus is given, Oedipus drives forward like the man of performance that we, the audience, expect of a king and leader. In that same sense, we overly know that Oedipus is a man of intelligence based on his ability to answer the Sphinxs riddle.

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