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Oedipus the King 3
Title: Oedipus the King 3
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 520 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus the King 3
“OEDIPUS THE KING”
The feature of the tragic hero as exemplified in Sophecles’ “Oedipus the King” makes the tragic character a great paradox. For unlike most, the tragic hero emerges as anything but a social person. He may begin that way, motivated by a genuine desire to help the community, as Oedipus, but what emerges in the course of the action is that he is actually, deep down where it really counts, far more concerned …showed first 75 words of 520 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 520 total…see in his response to experience something magnificently heroic, an unwillingness to accept any shared understanding of experience, a refusal to compromise with any one else's answer as to what life is all about, a determination to push life beyond all simple ethical explanations and to discover for himself the full meaning of experience. If that desire leads to self-destruction, as it usually does, then that is the price the hero is willing to pay.
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