Oedipus the king gave a speech to his people in the city of Thebes and the priest on his front steps. The priest and followers are there to convince Oedipus through logos to help save them and their life sources. During these speeches Oedipus replied by showing two devices,ethos and pathos. The two devices he used in his side of the speech allowed him to gain more of the city’s trust in him, and have them rely on how serious he is about this matter.
The first such point of ethos occurs when he is asked by his followers to help save Thebes. He acts with ethos when he immediately decides to find help for them. However, he may also have been deciding to do this through pathos. His need for his land to be perfectly normal might have prompted this immediate decision, as well as his care for having people exist in his city other than his family. Ethos occurs through the character of the King himself. He has a heroic confidence in his own abilities, and as well as a good reason for such confidence, both from his own sense of past achievements and from the very high opinion everyone has of those. He feels he can achieve anything.
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He must see life through on his own terms, no matter what the cost. He is prepared to acknowledge no authority outside his own will. That being so, if he is to be satisfied the world must answer to him. As his situation gets more complicated and things do not work out as he has imagined they might, Oedipus does not adapt, change, and learn well. He becomes more and more determined to see the problem through on his own terms; as he only becomes more and more stubborn. Having accepted this responsibility of his city, Thebes, he will on his own see the matter through, without compromise, without lies, without