He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel. After saving Thebes from the Sphinx, he is given the hand of Queen Jocasta, his mother, for marriage and he becomes the new king of Thebes. One of the many reasons Oedipus is a coward is that he didn’t want to face his parent s again. His thought at the moment when he blinds himself is that if he killed himself he will see his real parents in the underworld, who he had committed those crimes against. Instead of repenting for his sins he escapes them.
Oedipus was a caring person from the beginning of the play. When his people started getting sick and dying he sent his brother in law, Creon, to “To ask of Phoebus, in his Pythian shrine, by word or deed how shall I rescue Thebes?” Creon came back and explained that the former king, Laius had been murdered and He fell. Apollo Chargeth us to strike his murderers, whoe'er they be, with vengeance.. Oedipus went on to question the chorus and curse the murder, which is ironically himself. He then calls for Teiresias, an old blind man who can see the future, and Teiresias tells Oedipus that he is the murderer, but Oedipus doesn't believe him because an eye witness said it was a band of thieves that killed Laius. As the play nears an end a messenger from the city of Corinth comes and tells Oedipus that the man he believes is his father is dead.
"Good wombs have borne bad sons"(Act 1, Sc.2, Line 143) says Miranda after she hears of the things Antonio had done in the past. Prospero tells how his own brother, Antonio, went behind his back to remove him from power and claim Prospero's Dukedom for his own. Antonio had worked with Alonso, the king of Naples, to raise an army and drive Prospero into the hands of death. Trying to kill his only brother that he has known for his entire life, Antonio wanted to have the power that Prospero had. "Draw thy sword.
In Oedipus Rex, Creon wills nothing more than to help Oedipus lift the never resting plague from the city. For instance, as the city falls into a pit of despair, Creon travels to Apollo's shrine to pray and find out what they must do to end the plague's thirst for death. As he returns to Thebes, he gives the news to Oedipus, and in a cloud of paranoia caused by pride, Oedipus accuses Creon of conspiring against him for the throne. Even though Creon is falsely accused, he only wants nothing more than the best for the city. Creon is hurt by this accusation and responds, "This accusation against me by our ruler Oedipus, it's outrageous."
Both characters had such a connection to their father, which is why they were able to see the deception and trickery behind the murder of the two rulers. In Hamlet, it was the ghost of King Hamlet who revealed his murder to Prince Hamlet. In the Lion King, Mufasa also appears to Simba in the form of a ghost to give him insight on how to save the kingdom. The death of Scar and Claudius are both ironic. Both of the villains die in the way they killed their brothers.
The beginning of the vigilante is a traumatic past. The count of Monte Cristo is haunted by his unjust arrest; Batman is haunted by the murder of his parents; similarly, Hamlet is haunted by the murder of his father. Hamlet, upon learning the murder of his father, swears his life to avenge his father. Since hamlet is the only person who learned of the truth
During the play, Oedipus realizes his own flaws while he investigates who the "true killer" of Laius is. The first character flaw is presented in the play Oedipus is Oedipus acting impulsively. When Oedipus first heard his prophecy from the Delphi oracle, he made an exodus out of Corinth as soon as he could. While on his journey to Thebes, a caravan cut him off. Enraged, Oedipus killed all the men except one.
Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles about a man who tries to escape a prophecy from coming true but ends up fulfilling it instead. Oedipus, the protagonist, is destined to kill his father, Lauis and to marry his mother, Jocasta. Oedipus soon discovers that all this time he has been in denial and leads to his own destruction, gauging his eyes out. With this, Sophocles, knowing that his audience already knows the outcome of the play, uses that knowledge to create situations that involve verbal, dramatic, and situational irony that keep the audience on the edge and also to develop the characters in the play. Accordingly, this play sends a strong message of fate and free will to the audience.
The classical legend of Oedipus by Sophocles, Oedipus is the main character of this tragedy. During the play, it was prophesied that Laius, king of Thebes, and Jocasta, queen of Thebes as well as wife to Laius, would give birth to a child who would grow up and murder his father and marry his mother, Jocasta. Afraid of the terrible prophecy, Laius and Jocasta nailed Oedipus’ feet together, hence the name that means, “swollen foot”, and left him to die. However, a wandering shepherd who took the baby to the nearby city of Corinth. The childless king, Polybus and queen, Merope, who raised him as a prince, then adopted him.
King Hamlet's ghost uttered to Hamlet, “The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown” (1.5.39). Hamlet agreed to avenge his father's death. Now, his life had a purpose, which is to kill Claudius. Aside from his father's death, there was something else that sent him spiraling down. He was denied access to his love, Ophelia.