The Power of Truth (Analyzed throught Oedipus Rex)

As described by Aristotle, it is essential that a genuine and effective tragedy tells the story of a person of noble stature falling from his or her greatness, resulting in an increasing of awareness or some gain of self-knowledge. Sophocles, a master playwright of his time, supremely accomplished this task with his play Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex can be described as an unsurpassed masterpiece of success gone to ruin; a profound statement of the human …showed first 75 words of 930 total…

…showed last 75 words of 930 total…a situation in which the truth has been concealed from them. Most would choose to try to uncover that truth. Is knowing the truth always good? In Oedipus’s case, it is because of the self-knowledge and wisdom that he gains, although he becomes blinded from the world. Oedipus Rex, the masterpiece of success gone to ruin that is unsurpassed, is truly genius in its emphasis of human condition and the ultimate sacrifice for self-knowledge.