Sophocles Oedipus Rex Essay

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This next poem also relates two naturally paired texts from Humanities 10, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Aristotle’s Poetics. The engagement between these two works is especially unusual because Poetics is a meta-commentary on the nature of tragedy, and Oedipus is a tragedy itself. Because of this, the dynamic between the two voices in this poem constitutes a narrow view being refuted by a wider view. The first voice, the character Oedipus, is a tragic hero, someone who is overcome by sorrow yet cannot understand the reason for his suffering. The second voice, on the other hand, can be considered that of a well-informed tragedian, in this case embodied by Aristotle. While the first voice sees his agony as a product of being metaphorically blinded