Diction In Oedipus The King

Sophocles wrote Oedipus the king showing how the characters and the theme develop throughout the play. He also created suspense and used different types of diction for this play. Sophocles wrote his play using all the aspects for it to be considered a tragedy. This play has inspired many works of art and has also revealed a lot about the Greeks’ ancient culture. Jocasta has developed from the beginning to the end of the play. She changes from peaceful to suspicious to then desperate. She starts out as peaceful and wise because she is trying to keep the peace between Creon and Oedipus. She then changes to being suspicious because she is starting to be more quiet and reserved when she finds out that the prophecy has come true.

He uses nautical motif when the characters say something related to a ship or a voyage. “I fear a disastrous storm.” Sophocles then uses and Agricultural motif when he has Oedipus say “I wish to know the seed from where i came.” He then uses their willingness to ignore the truth as a motif because when the answer to this riddle of who killed Laius is in their face they ignore it. When Jocasta tells Oedipus about the prophecy that was given to her about a son of hers Oedipus tells her he has the same prophecy about

The play has a tragic hero Oedipus, who saved the city Thebes from the Sphinx. Oedipus had a high birth position, being born from King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Like all tragedies our tragic hero has a flaw. Oedipus flaw is his anger and his need to always use violence as a threat. Oedipus had a fall, by deciding to kill Laius, and by not listening to Jocasta when she told him to stop looking for his parents. And finally the last characteristic to have a tragedy acceptance. In the end Oedipus accepts his fate of being exiled outside of Thebes to save the