Question

“Introduction to Oedipus the King”: According to the first paragraph of the excerpt, what mainly is Oedipus’s role in Sophocles’s play?
Question 16 options:

a)

criminal

b)

detective

c)

both answer choices are correct

d)

neither answer choice is correct

Answer 1

Answer:

Both choices are correct

Explanation:

In the play Oedipus is searching for Laius' murderer because an oracle tells him only when the murderer is punished will a plague end, but at the end we learn that he is the murderer. So that makes him a criminal and a detective.