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The Punishment of the King/Oedipus Rex
Title: The Punishment of the King/Oedipus Rex
Category: Arts & Humanities / Theater
Details: Words: 1167 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Punishment of the King/Oedipus Rex
At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus, king of Thebes, ends up banished forever from his kingdom. Additionally, Oedipus physically puts out his own eyes, for several reasons which will be discussed later. The question is: Did Oedipus deserve his punishments? There are many factors that must be considered in answering this, including how Oedipus himself felt about his situation. His blinding was as much symbolic as it was physical pain. After all factors …showed first 75 words of 1167 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1167 total…period that this was written in, using the beliefs of that time for my own. Were this story to have taken place in modern times, Oedipus certainly would have deserved his punishment, but this idea is irrelevant because, quite simply, this did not take place in our "advanced" civilization. Oedipus was a victim of fate, incapable of free will, and as such he should have not been punished, save banishment only to cure the plague.
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