Agony_In_Oedipus

Agony In Oedipus In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus discovers through mental, physical and emotional suffering who he really is, which leads him to accept his indisputable fate Discuss. Many who have passed through the crucible of suffering will acknowledge that they have found themselves infinitely better from the experience - bitter though it may have been. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus discovers through mental, physical and emotional suffering who he really is, which leads him to accept his indisputable fate. As Oedipus grows in terrifying self-knowledge, he changes from a once prideful, heroic King, to a tyrant in denial toward the middle, and finally to a fearful, condemned man, humbled by his tragic fate. Oedipus’ mental anguish over whether or not he is Laius’ murderer, his physical torture (by gauging out his eyes) and, his emotional torment over Jocastas’ death and his children’s fate, cause his suffering but, in the end, leads to his self-realization. Oedipus’s mental distress causes him a great deal of suffering but, in turn, leads to his self-realization. In the beginning, Oedipus is a very confident and valiant hero, with more than a sufficient amount of pride. Oedipus, as the male protagonist, finds himself constrained to rid Thebes of oedipus, suffering, murderer, oedipus’, himself, fate, much, leads, thebes, self-realization, through, eyes, emotional, own, never, murder, mental, lost, king, discovers, children, causes, whether, truth, tragic, torment, physical, past, pain, over, out, man, learns, lauis’, creon