The hero must also be a. He was a true tragic hero that saved his city and fell due to several flawed character traits. His drop from power came about because of his sense of hubris and ignorance to the presence of facts around him. Oedipus, the model. He should be good, but not perfect, for the fall of a perfect man from happiness into misery, would be unfair and repellent and will not arouse pity. Aristotle described qualities that manufacture a tragic hero.
His downfall is always a result on his flaw or tragic flaw. He must have a recognition of sorts. The protagonist must experience a reversal of fortune. Lastly, in order to be a tragic hero, the story must make us feel pity and fear. The story of Oedipus The King. The topic I chose is the tragic hero topic. There exists a number of parameters that describe a tragic hero and thus it was my desire to get to understand these parameters.
His famous connection between "pity and fear" and "catharsis" developed into one of Western philosophy's greatest questions: why is it that people are drawn to watching tragic heroes suffer horrible fates? Aristotle's ideas revolve around three crucial effects: First, the audience develops an emotional attachment to the tragic hero; second, the audience fears what may befall the hero; and finally after misfortune strikes the audience pities the suffering hero.
Through these attachments the individual members of the audience go through a catharsis, a term which Aristotle borrowed from the medical writers of his day, which means a "refining" -- the viewer of a tragedy refines his or her sense of difficult ethical issues through a vicarious experious of such thorny problems.
Clearly, for Aristotle's theory to work, the tragic hero must be a complex and well-constructed character, as in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. As a tragic hero, Oedipus elicits the three needed responses from the audience far better than most; indeed, Aristotle and subsequent critics have labeled Oedipus the ideal tragic hero. A careful examination of Oedipus and how he meets and exceeds the parameters of the tragic hero reveals that he legitimately deserves this title. Oedipus' nobility and virtue provide his first key to success as a tragic hero.
Following Aristotle, the audience must respect the tragic hero as a "larger and better" version of themselves. The dynamic nature of Oedipus' nobility earns him this respect. Thus, he is a noble in the simplest sense; that is, his parents were themselves royalty. Whatever our twenty-first evaluation of the actions of Oedipus, the evaluation of his own creator Sophocles and of the tellers of the myth in ancient times is that it is morally wrong to fight against what fate has predetermined for us.
It seems that Oedipus could have avoided his ill-destiny if he had taken certain precautions. If he could promise of never laying a hand on a man and marrying an aged woman, he would have done better. From a human and the more prudent point of view, it can be concluded that Oedipus falls because he remains blind at many circumstances. In any case, he is a tragic character because he is humanly frail, morally intermediate, and good, but not unflawed by a tragic weakness, and therefore identifiable to us and our own inescapable human condition even today.
Sophocles tragic character Oedipus is a unique tragic character that is entangled in the moral paradox of human life and reality. His life embodies the paradox of the human situation in which such things as tragedies are not only inevitable but also inescapable. Oedipus as a tragic character is heroic because of his struggle, pitiable because of his weakness before the forces of his destiny, and his tragedy arouses fear in us, because he is in the same predicament difficult situation like us, though he was a great man otherwise.
The irony of his fate is that fate has done what it wanted to before he started actually believing in it. The tragedy of Oedipus is that of the realization of his failure. And the tragedy of Oedipus is a tragedy of the human situation. His story tells us that man must do his best — but even then he cannot overcome the inevitable! Tension between Individual and State in Oedipus Rex. The Reversal of Events in Oedipus Rex. Dramatic Technique in Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex as a Classical Tragedy.
Exploration into Man's Nature in Oedipus Rex. Rationalist and Fatalist view in Oedipus Rex. When he relies on his status, he is blind, not physically, but emotionally. He is blind in his actions; therefore he does not see that the questioning would bring him only misery. Later, after his self- inflicted blinding, Oedipus sees his actions as wrongdoing when he says What use are my eyes to me, who could never — See anything pleasant again?
Sophocles and that blindness does not necessarily have to be physical as we can se when he says, If I had sight, I know not with what eyes I would have looked Sophocles In the play Oedipus Rex , Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a good- natured person who has bad judgment and is frail.
Oedipus makes a few fatal decisions and is condemned to profound suffering because of them. In the beginning, Teiresias is simply trying to ease him slowly into the truth; but Oedipus is too proud to see any truths, and he refuses to believe that he could have been responsible for such a horrible crime.
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