Does Oedipus Needs To Improve

Oedipus Needs to Improve What if Oedipus did not have any friends because he was not a nice person to anyone that is around him? Oedipus has a bad life growing up because of the Oracle telling him that he is going to marry his mother and killing his father. He ran away from his house because of the oracle so he does not have a proper kid life growing up. Oedipus thinks he has all of the power because he think he beat the oracle and sphinx riddle. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus and others suffer because of his self-centeredness and his irreverence. Oedipus thinks that he is caring about everyone in the city, but he is only caring about himself, in reality. Oedipus has an act of only thinking about himself in a way like nobody else does and thinks that he is the only thing that is good in the city. Oedipus hurts people because of his self-centeredness. Oedipus cares
Oedipus damages others because of his irreverence. Oedipus is being unpleasant to Tiresias, a blind prophet, because Tiresias was speaking his mind and telling the truth. Then Oedipus goes on and criticizing Tiresias and calling him nasty names. “What a wicked old man you are! You’d try a stone’s Patience! Out with it! Have you no feeling at all?” (Sophocles 1.18). Oedipus was frustrated with Tiresias because Tiresias was saying that Oedipus was the killer and blaming him for killing Laïos. Oedipus is being unpleasant towards his family member(s). Oedipus is criticizing Creon because Oedipus thinks he killed the king and wants to kill him. “If you think a man can sin against his own kind and not be punished for it, I say you are mad” (Sophocles 2.29). Oedipus is attacking Creon with his words because he thinks Creon killed Laïos and wants to kill him, even though Creon is family to him. Nobody should have been treated so poorly by Oedipus especially if they are his family