Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero

Over the years tragedies have been written, told and expressed. Aristotle defines in his book "poetry" that tragedy is compassionate, arouses fear, and finally emanates or makes emotions diverge or clarify. The tragic drama that completes this emotional cycle completely is Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The play came to the king of the town of Bibes through his emotional journey of sympathy, fear, and last catharsis. He unconsciously killed his father and was the father of his mother's child.

Sophocles' "Oedipus King" is Oedipus, about a man destined to fate. Like most tragedies, "Oedipus King" includes a tragic hero, a hero who can not get rid of his / her own bad luck. This tragic hero usually has errors or tragic flaws leading to his / her downfall. The tragic flaw that Sophocles gave to Oedipus is arrogance (exaggeration or overconfidence), Oedipus is the reason he went to destiny to escape. Pride like Oedipus ... In the play, Oedipu, there are many mention of blindness and vision. Some people have limited physique like Prophet Teiresias, but others can "see" the truth. Other characters like Oedipus have a complete vision, but the fact is "blind". In drama, vision is used to express knowledge. An example is how "the prophet or the prophet" see "the truth behind the actual situation. Overall play, Edips is "blind".

Sophocles '"Oedipus King" is a classic tragedy interpreting its meaning through its tragic hero Oedipus' experience. Through the script, the distinctive feature of Edips is that he does not know the truth, which inevitably leads to his downfall. This ignorance of truth is a characteristic of the definition of Aristotle's tragedy. The tragedy defined in Aristotle's "poetry" is an imitation of behavior rather than a story. This means that tragedy happens often