Oedipus And Odysseus: A Comparison
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The major focus of this tragedy is on the character of the hero,
Oedipus. He is a person of great importance; in fact, the security and
health of the community depend upon him. And he has to meet an urgent
crisis, something which threatens the continuing existence of the city.
And because he is ....
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.... As his
situation gets more complicated and things do not work out as he has
imagined they might, unlike Odysseus, he does not adapt, change, or learn.
He becomes more and more determined to see the problem through on his own
terms; he becomes increasingly inflexible. Having accepted the
responsibility for saving Thebes, he will on his own see the matter through,
without compromise, without lies, without subterfuge. Oedipus demands from
life that it answers to him, to his vision of what it ....
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