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Oedipus Rex has so many problems for just one man. Starting with the prophecy he got when he was a baby. Then later became a king to a town named Thebis and after that, the town was cursed. Talk about bad luck. Oedipus’s character is played as a protagonist in the story in Oedipus the King. According to Aristotle to be a protagonist you need to have a hamartia. Oedipus has many tragic flaws, but which is his true downfall; there is killing his biological father, another one is that he slept with his real mother and has kids with her, or is it him really trying to run away from his prophecy and him actually believing he could. Which one is his true harmarita; making him the protagonist, by giving the audience pity and fear for him.

As the story goes on the audience figures out that Oedipus may have killed his father. This is brought up many times in the play by the …show more content…

Was he being brave to run or was he being ignorant/coward for him actually believing he could run away from his prophecy. As the audience you don’t get to see this happen because this is just background information as you learn from the story. Along with being the audience you feel pity for him when he says, “I was doomed 925 to be murdered of the father that begot me. When I heard this I fled, and in the days that followed I would measure from the stars the whereabouts of Corinth—yes, I fled to somewhere where I should not see fulfilled 930 the infamies 53 told in that dreadful oracle.” You feel pity because this prophecy was given to him as a small child. So when Jocasta and Laius sent him away, he was raised by King and Queen of Corinth. So him logically thinking that he could just run away seemed easy until, he figured out he ran into the problem. If it was you in his shoes wouldn’t you run away to, knowing that the prophecy was to kill your father and sleep with your

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