Pride_Goes_Before_The_Fall

Pride Goes Before The Fall Pride Goes Before the Fall Greek heroes were often thought of as being innocent of the events that trouble them. However, pride, or hubris, was something that Oedipus was constantly trailed with. Oedipus’ tragic flaw was pride, which proved to be a never-ending cause of trouble for him. Oedipus Rex gave several examples of Oedipus’ hubris, how he paid for it, and directly contrasted a Biblical Worldview. Abounding in hubris, Oedipus Rex’s main character was unmistakably a bad ruler. First off. The prologue wasn’t started, as usual, by the chorus, but instead was begun by Oedipus himself. In line eight he even announced himself as “The world renown and glorious Oedipus.” What could a man have so much pride about' Line 397 explains that his pride was started when he solved the sphynx’s riddle. “ Pride breeds the tyrant,” as quoted from line 872, tells of the chorus’ spite towards pride. All good things eventually came to an end in Oedipus’ life. Ironically he turned out to be the murderer of his father and the son of his wife. pride, oedipus, oedipus’, tells, out, line, hubris, however, greek, worldview, wife, trouble, things, started, philosophy, himself, grief, fall, end, christian, before, bad, world, who’s, wasn’t, verses, vain, usual, unmistakably, tyrant, turned, truth, trailed, tragic, tragedy