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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1463 | Pages: 6.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus Rex
Kevin Klinger
Humanities
Sept. 25 2001
Moral Issues In Oedipus Rex
The play Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, deals with a variety of moral issues of the time. Oedipus unknowingly kills his own father and marries his mother. The play deals with who should be the rightful heir to the throne, and whether and heir should be a ruler, just because of their bloodline.
Oedipus' first words echo, without his realizing it yet, the incest and patricide …showed first 75 words of 1463 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1463 total…just because they are born royalty. True leaders are not bred, Sophocles is saying, they are made by their deed, and actions. Oedipus does try to rule honorably, but he is motivated by what is best for him not by the utilitarian good of the people. A true leader is man who is selfless and not self-centered. He rules for the utilitarian good of all his subjects not for his own personal interests and self-gain.
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