Similarities Between Odysseus Rex And Oedipus The King

In the play Oedipus Rex, Tiresias contrast with Oedipus because he tells him he was the murder of king Laius. Oedipus is really lost, He doesn’t know who he is and doesn’t know his faith. Tiresias does a big part because without the prophecy wouldn’t know he was the murder of king Laius. Oedipus goes through a long journey to know who he is. Oedipus a tragic hero had a variety of things that happened to him. Oedipus goes to the blind prophet and begs them to tell him who was the murder of king Laius. Oedipus doesn’t stop begging and then accuses Tiresias is the murder of king Laius and tries to get Tiresias exile. Tiresias had enough and told him that he was the murder “Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, a tapping before him step by step”. Oedipus does not believe Tiresias, and tells him to show prove.
This leads Oedipus to be a tragic hero by him having a hard time believing Tiresias.
This is Oedipus tragic flaw because he is discovering his faith and what really happened. He then tells Jocasta what Tiresias told him. Jocasta replies to him that the prophecy is false, “Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future”. Messenger then comes tell Oedipus that he is not really the son Polybus. The messenger goes by telling hi, that he was found and got taken in because king Laius didn’t want the prophecy to come true because it said he son was going to kill
him. It advances the story by Oedipus wanting to know the truth of what happened to him as a baby. The theme is the faith or free will, and he did not have free will because he had no choice. His faith was already chosen. The tragic flaw was he killed his father and slept with his mother. That was a tragedy he also had power and was very good to the people, until his flaw that he found out the truth. “ Take me away, far, far from Thebes, quickly, cast me away, my friends this great murderous ruin, this man cursed to heaven, the man the deathless gods hate most of all”. Oedipus wants to be exile for all the bad things he did. In Oedipus Rex there was a bunch of different tragedies. Tiresias was the character that leads him into being the tragic hero. Having too much knowledge can hurt someone because he wanted to know the truth. Oedipus for being eager, Tiresias didn’t want to tell him the truth but Oedipus threatened him, so Tiresias told him the truth about his parents. He went to being a king to having nothing and being exile. “If is not the man he says you are, believe me you were born for pain”. He is not perfect that’s what makes him a tragic hero and has to face his consequences for his actions.