Civic Unity In Oedipus The King

Oedipus the King is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles around five-hundred BC. The play is set in the royal house of Thebes and is about how King Oedipus, who is portrayed as a reasonable and respected ruler by the citizens of Thebes, is trying to find out the answers to the murder of the previous King, Laius. The citizens are dying from a plague that has inhabited the city with no end in sight. King Oedipus sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to the city of Delphi, where Apollo the Prophet’s oracle is located, to find out how to help the city. It is from here that everything seems to fall apart for Oedipus because as he begins to uncover what he thought would be an answer to the plague and save his people, however, this actually turns

Civic minded individuals will reach out to others by offering unity through helping the homeless or giving to their church, as well as donate money or food to charities or local food banks. The government’s way of exhibiting its civic role today is very similar to the Greeks. World leaders reach out to their allies and invite them their country in order to show unity and respect. However, providing entertainment to every citizen today would be difficult. As an alternative, the media reporters are invited to report the events and activities and in this way it would seem like a production. The Greeks began this tradition of civic mindedness as a way to gain allies and maintain harmony between different countries and cultures and continues throughout

She was angry with the gods, because of the prophecy she and King Laius were told before her child was born, so no longer believed in them. As she begins to realize that Oedipus is actually her son from her husband Laius, who she thought had been killed (King Laius gave the infant son to a shepherd and ordered him to take the baby to the woods and leave him to die) that when the shepherd, who was summand to Thebes to tell Oedipus what he knew about the story of Jocasta 's child, he only confirmed that he felt mercy for the child and that the child had been raised by the king and queen of Corinth, a city nearby. Jocasta was devastated by this realization that she felt ashamed, not only herself, but for the memory of her slain husband Laius, that she felt she had no other option and hanged herself. He had known for many years that he had killed a man and suspected early on in the play that it was Laius. His total preoccupation, that of a man gone amok, now centers on the discovery of his incestuous relationship with Jocasta.