The Tragic Outcome of Intemperance in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Title: The Tragic Outcome of Intemperance in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Category: /Literature/Novels
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Tragic Outcome of Intemperance in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Category: /Literature/Novels
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 800 total…of Laius and his relentless seeking of the murderer, to his violent blinding of himself and voluntary embracing of exile. His lack of temperance leads him inevitably to his undoing. Paradoxically, however, his shortcoming also results in the magnificent metamorphosis of the arrogant Oedipus the King into the humbled Oedipus the man. Thus, even while Oedipus the King brings about his material downfall through intemperance, Oedipus the man rises to greater spiritual heights through courage.