Oedipus Rex
In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus, the precocious child raised by the royalty of Corinth, is torn by the intense desire of the past. Ironically by searching in this direction, the forsaken king of Thebes accelerates into what some may call his "predetermined" fate. When the gods chose for Laius' son to be damned, they did so by twisting Oedipus' otherwise noble heart into eventual inglorious evil doom. This is what makes our protagonist, a powerful leader, both one to despise and one to pity intensely.
In the beginning of this play, Oedipus is ingenuous and vows to do whatever necessary it is to be done to the culprit of the murder of old king Laius. Like the futile attempts a dog makes chase for his own tail, Oedipus is determined. In his own hubris, Oedipus not only takes little heed for listening to the valuable information evoked from the respectable prophet Tiresias; he is as rash as to conspire the thought of treason from his old friend and......
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