COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

In this paper I will present an understanding of a Play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. 'Compare and contrast a outlooks of Oedipus and ruler Iocaste as to a validity of uncontrollable fate, and oracles being adept to glimpse a future. '

King Laios a leader of Thebes, has a son with his wife ruler Iocoste. His name is Oedipus. A soothsayer Teiresias, a trusted domestic to a King and ruler notifies them some distracting news. Teiresias notifies monarch Laios and Queen Iocoste that their son, Oedipus will murder his father and wed his mother. A monarch and ruler make a conclusion to take a baby young man up to a mountain far away from a town. King Laios donates a baby to a domestic and instructs him to bind a offspring' ankles and depart him on a hill side to perish. A servant follows his instructions but instead of leaving a boy on a mountain side he gives him to a shepherd and makes him promise to take a boy to a faraway place.

This is how monarch Laios and ruler Iocaste try to bypass their fate. They are endangered by a reality of their son so they try to have him slain, to end their problem. However this plan, nearly foolproof does not work. A shepherd brings a baby young man back to his city and presents him to monarch Polybus because a monarch and ruler could not have a child.

Oedipus grows up as a child of Polybus and Merope. When Oedipus was a juvenile man he was notified that he was not his father's son. He tries to dismiss this horrible accusation as that of a drunken man, but it always bothered him. One day Oedipus concludes to go to a Oracle to see his information of Oedipus' birth.

A oracle notifies Oedipus his fate is a death of his dad by his own hands and that he will wed his mother. He does not response a initial inquiry Oedipus asked as to who his factual parents are. Upon hearing this Oedipus concludes to depart a city and not ever return as long as his parents (Polybus, Merope) are still alive.

Oedipus is running from his destiny as he departs a town and heads far from there. On his journey down a road he runs into a chariot drawn by equines and they force him off a road, and as a charioteer went by Oedipus strikes him, a man swings back. Oedipus strikes him with a blow that bangs him out of a chariot, and a man falls dead to a ground. Oedipus extends his travels, he arrives to a city called Thebes.

After explaining a riddle of a Sphinx, Oedipus becomes a King of Thebes and marries a present Queen, Iocoste. Oedipus and Iocaste start a family and direct a prosperous town for numerous years.

At this point in a life of Oedipus, is where a article Oedipus Rex by Sophocles ...