Oedipus' Tragic Flaw11/5/2017 While reading Oedipus and the King aloud in class, I could see the prominent connection between tragedy and the story itself. The ironic ending - in which we discover that Oedipus has lived up to his tragic fate even though his mother had spent her entire life doing everything she could to avoid it - brought the sense of a tragic irony to the forefront as we read the story. The plot twist of the story (being that Oedipus had killed his father and then married his own mother) built on the tragedy as a whole. In regards to the recent online research I had done when we were asked to look up what tragedy was, I would say that this story fit the criteria perfectly. The definition of tragedy is an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. There is human suffering throughout the entire story; from the beginning, where the town is described as having an epidemic, to the end when Oedipus seals his own fate and is exiled, the plot fits the idea of tragedy perfectly.
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