Literary Analysis of Sophocles', Oedipus the King

Sophocles Oedipus the baron was considered by Aristotle to be the faultless model of a catastrophe. The reason Aristotle considered Oedipus the King to be matchless was due to the detail that it flawlessly adhered to his stringent criteria of an powerful tragedy. In Aristotles The Poetics he describes how Oedipus the King meets his principles of melodramatic composition by its use of a interlacing spot, simultaneous discovery and coke and finally the character of Oedipus (291). Aristotles principles of dramatic composition have been used for centuries as the nigh spatiotemporal and consistent criteria in which to critically analyze a tragedy.

        The plot is determined by many to be the single most defining sight of an effective tragedy. The plot of Oedipus is complex and facilitates the bewitch ment of the audience by intensifying the suspense and on the some other hand stimulating compassion. William Nickerson Bates wrote of Oedipus the King in his essay Sophocles: Poet and playwright, He develops his story step by step in such a way as to hold the wariness and arouse the sympathy of his audience whether it consist of spectators or a solitary reader (336). The plot in Oedipus is considered to be polish because the discovery and the reversal coincide simultaneously. This according to Aristotle is the most effective combination of complex actions used in a tragedy (Aristotle, 291).



Oedipus discovery of his birth gives enlightenment to his crimes. Due to this discovery, a reversal occurs when his previous pride and good fortune are indeed transformed to ultimate humility and ill fortune. Oedipus the foremost of men is now Oedipus the most loathsome and pathetic of men.

        An interesting aspect of Sophocles Oedipus is his expert use of caustic remark. Presented in Oedipus is a dramatic irony which keeps a discrepancy between what the readers...

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