Oedipus the King: Reason and Passion
In the play, Oedipus the King, there are dual parts of reason and
passion. Oedipus primarily acts with both reason and
passion at different stages in the play.
There are several points in the play where Oedipus acts with
reason. The first such point occurs when he is asked by his
followers to help save Thebes. He acts with reason when he
immediately decides to heed to their demands and find help for
them. However, he may also have been deciding to do this through
passion. His need for his land to be perfectly normal might have
prompted this immediate decision.
Reason also occurs through the character of Oedipus himself. He
has a heroic confidence in his own abilities, and he has good
reason for such confidence, both from his own sense of past
achievements and from the very high regard everyone has of those
achievements. He is conscious of himself as a great man. He feels
he can achieve anything.
The central metaphor in this play is blindness. For the tragic
hero is, in a sense, blind from the start, at least in the sense
that he is not alert to the fact that the way he sees his
situation may not be true, may be only a partial take on the
reality of things. Oedipus is not prepared to admit that he might
be wrong. Why should he? He has always been right in the past; no
one else in Thebes is acting resolutely to meet the crisis, any
more than they were when the city was threatened before. His
vision may well include a certain narrowness, and yet because he
sees the world that way, he is also the one with the most
confidence in his own sight and the one most ready to act in
accordance with what he sees. The way he sees the world lies at
the very source of what makes him now, and in the past, a great
man. Those around him rely upon that confidence in order for the
crisis to be dealt with.
It is ironic that the only way that the curse will be lifted from
Thebes is by finding the murderer of Laius. Oedipus starts on a
powerful trip to find the murderer, and this ends up throwing him
into a passionate search within himself to find the truth.
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