Term Papers on Oedipus Rex

Term Paper Title	Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex

     Oedipus Rex

     In many plays a character has a misconception of his her self and/or his or
her world.  When this misconception is destroyed it can be a major turning point in
the story.  "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles is one such story.  In the story Oedipus has
such a misconception where he thinks he has a good life, but really his life is morally
wrong.  This contributes to the theme or themes of the play
when they serve as the defining climax of the story.  When the misconception is
stopped Oedipus sees that you cannot escape or change your past, but you can still
do great things even if you have been evil or immoral in your life.
     When Oedipus was born it was prophesied that he would kill his father and
marry his mother.  His father naturally feared this and told a shepard to take the
boy out and kill him when he was still a child.  The kind old shepard could not bring
himself to kill a innocent little boy so he gave him to a passing messenger to take as
his own.  When Oedipus was older he learned of this prophecy and left home
because he loved his foster father who he believed to be his real father.  A while
after he ran away he traveling down a road when he saw a coach coming.  It
contained his true father, King Laios of Thebes and his bodyguards.  When they
almost ran him over Oedipus attacked them killing the bodyguards and his father,
thinking that they were highway bandits, and by doing so he unwittingly fulfilled the
prophecy.  When he realizes this he is devastated.  This really contributes to the
theme, that you cannot escape your past.  The fact that he killed a king and his
father no less, is a major factor in his exile later in the story.
     When he discovers that King Laios was his real father he sees that by not
running away that he could have prevented this whole catastrophe.  This just goes to
show that hindsight is always 20/20, Oedipus saw this and realized his mistake.  Him
realizing that he cannot go back and change his past is also a big theme of the story.
This...

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