the tragic flaw of Oedipus was his detrimental
who is Oedipus?
Oedipus was a mythological Greek king of Thebes. Oedipus, a tragic hero in Greek mythology, unintentionally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, bringing ruin to his city and family.
Oedipus, the main character in Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, has a fatal weakness that leads to his downfall. A tragic fault is described as "an otherwise desirable feature that becomes detrimental when brought to an extreme" (Stary). In a tragedy, the main character's suffering is visible, like in Oedipus' case. Oedipus' terrible defect is his drive to locate Laios' killer, to compel the unwilling blind prophet Teiresias to confess the truth, and to stop the prophesy from being true. The first instance of Oedipus' resolve is when he searches out the killer of Laios. In the prologue, Oedipus declares, "Then once again I must bring what is dark to light."
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