Dennis Terrey

Period Two

English IV AP



Through Sophocles' use of foreshadowing in the play Oedipus Rex, certain truths

are revealed to the reader, such as the fact that a lack of respect for fate can eventually

bring on a person's downfall, by driving them to delusion. Oedipus is looked up to by all

his kingdom at the opening of the play, only to be thwarted by his own lack of

intelligence-- and more by his lack of faith than even that. Oedipus, once the sanguine, yet

slightly overbearing ruler of the people, is reduced to less than a sliver of a human being.

When confronted by the prophet Teiresius, Oedipus feels most perplexed and even

exposed. And so he rejects any possibility of validity in Teiresius' prognostication, and, in

doing this, signs his own sentence. Because of Oedipus' failure to respect the insight of a

gifted seer, he is doomed to a blind and bloody end.

As I have said before, Oedipus was first revered by all his people. His earnest

patriotism......

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