That all changes when he returns home after telling his wife what had happened. She says “ Make thick my blood/ Stop up th’access and passage to remorse” (1.5 33-34) Lady Macbeth is the one who encourages Macbeth to become King. Now that they both believe that Macbeth is going to become king, there is nothing that will get in their way. Soon after, Macbeth decides that one of the only ways that he is going to become king, is to kill the current king, Duncan. He realized that the plan might not be reasonable and he started to second guess himself.
Also, when the official who is telling the city of Thebes that Oedipus blinded himself he says, “He shouts for all the barriers to be unbarred and he displayed to all of Thebes, his father’s murderer, his mothers…no, a word too foul to say…”(71). Even though Oedipus didn’t know that Lauis was his father it was still his choice to kill him and marry Jocasta although it was his mother. In addition to Oedipus being responsible for his fate he is also endowed with a tragic flaw and is doomed to make a serious error in judgment. Oedipus is arrogant and stubborn and these flaws cause him to accuse people of things they didn’t do. For example, when Oedipus says to Tiresias,”Yes, you, you planned this thing, and I suspect you of the very murder even, all but the actual stroke” (20).He is accusing Tiresias of murdering Lauis when the actual murderer is Oedipus himself.
<br> Macbeth will be the first one discussed, since he was the <br>main character. The play’s problems start when he kills Duncan. <br>This is done because he has a flaw; he is too determined. He <br>doesn’t let anything in his way of the goal, to be king, proven <br>here: <br> The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On <br> which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For <br> in my way it lies.
A Tragic hero is some literary character who makes an error of judment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces brings on a tragedy. Oedipus’s tragic flaw was his intelligence paired with arrogance and metaphorical blindness that leads to his destruction when it drives him to search for the truth. Hamlet’s tragic flaw is when he tries to avenge his father he hesitates in his actions and his thirst for revenge. Othello’s tragic flaw is his gullibility and jealously. Willie’s tragic flaw was he doesn’t know from reality from fantasy.
Oedipus has sent Creon, his brother-in-law, to the house of Apollo to ask help from the oracle. And now, Creon returns with the instruction: Thebes will be cured of the plague, as soon as the killer of the previous king, Laius, is caught. After hearing this, Oedipus vows to find out the murderer and punish him. With the suggestion from chorus, Oedipus also summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives, he claims that even though he knows the truth, he is reluctant to answer.
One of his many moral struggles, and the whole reason everyone else has moral conflict, is his decision to not properly bury Polyneices. His decision to not bury Polyneices was made because Polyneices was fighting against his brother, Eteocles, for their father’s, Oedipus, crown. Eteocles was on Creon’s side and thought that Creon should get the crown, while Polyneices thought that Creon should not get Oedipus’ crown. Creon made the decision to leave Polyneices’ body to rot. He swore that he’d punish anyone who tried to bury Polyneices would die.
It was predetermined that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. However, if fate had not intervened and given that message to Laios and Jocasta, then Laios and Jocasta would not have attempted to kill Oedipus. Therefore, there would not be any story. Fate did intervene and as a result, Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. “However, even before a name had been given to the infant, Apollo’s oracle foretold nothing but ill: he was destined one day to kill his father and then to become his mother’s husband.
The tragic hero must learn a lesson from his errors in judgment and become an example to the audience of what happens when great men fall from their social or political positions. Those actions happen when the Herdsman tells Oedipus who his mother is, and Oedipus replies Oh, oh, then everything has come out true. Light, I shall not look on you Again. I have been born where I should not be born, I have been married where I should not marry, I have killed whom I should not kill; now all is clear (Sophocles 1144). Oedipus's decision to pursue his questioning is wrong; his grandiosity blinded him and, therefore, his fate is not deserved, but it is far beyond his control.
Imperfections within the personality of the hero are revealed to the audience to be the ultimate cause of their downfall. In a typical situation it involves the hamartia and uncontrollable emotions which lead to errors in judgement or arguments and deaths in the hero or surrounding characters. In Oedipus's case, he is portrayed to be irritable and have a very hubris nature. Oedipus is not
When Creon leaves Jocasta asks Oedipus what happened he explained the whole thing. She tells him not to believe a word that the oracle said because one he predicted that her son would kill his father and marry his mother and this had never happened. She had a son with Laius but after learning of this prophecy he had the childs feet bound and thrown in