The Five Stages of a Tragic Hero and Oedipus' going through them.
Date Submitted: 06/05/2001 14:23:21
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 2 pages (539 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 2 pages (539 words)
The True Tragic Hero
In Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, every reader is riding a roller coaster of his life. Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is one person who goes through five stages which in Sophocles' play the main character Oedipus does. The five stages that he goes through are pre-eminence, flaw, fall, gaining of insight, and rise.
Pre-eminent is one who surpasses all the others or should be looked up to. Oedipus at the …
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…whom the gods hate"(1257). He has gone from O mighty king to a great wreak without a chance.
The final stage is rise however, he only has the potential to rise but the readers are not able to see it in this play. Oedipus says, " You need not fear to touch me. Of all men, I alone can bear this guilt"(1259). He begins to take all of the blame but will it continue or not?
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