The fate of Oedipus and Pentheus
The fate of Oedipus and Pentheus
I am going to compare and contrast Oedipus from Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Pentheus from Euripides's Bacchae. The difference between both of them is that Oedipus encounters the face of truth after performing the actions and as a result, his heart is surrounded with the feeling of pain and sorrow leading him to purposely punish and take revenge against himself whereas in the case of Pentheus, his foolish and grumpy attitude leads him to perform actions in temptation which results in unknowingly punishing himself with death by the hands of his own mother and thus helps Dionysus to take revenge against him and his family. Speaking about Oedipus, he was the king of Thebes and an excellent ruler of his times. He believed in being fair to his citizens and was a loving and merciful king. As the entire city of Thebes is attacked by a harmful disease known as plaque, he calls for Tiresias to give a solution to the problem, that is when he learns that he himself is the culprit as he has done brutal deeds of marrying his mother and killing his own father.
The Quote below supports the above thesis statement in detail
Then I would not have come
To kill my father and marry my mother infamously.
Now I am godless and child of impurity,
Begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self.
If there is any ill worse than ill,
That is the lot of Oedipus (Oedipus the King. 1358-1363).
When Oedipus acknowledges the truth of his life, in a moment his feeling of pride in being an honest and loyal king transforms in to someone who is a murderer and not worth being called a human. As we can clearly understand from the above passage that Oedipus is cursing himself as he is the murderer of his father and the woman he married is none other than his own mother. His heart is cluttered with pain and suffering as he comes across the truth about his partner. The word “godless” signifies of being immoral or having a devil attitude and
I am going to compare and contrast Oedipus from Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Pentheus from Euripides's Bacchae. The difference between both of them is that Oedipus encounters the face of truth after performing the actions and as a result, his heart is surrounded with the feeling of pain and sorrow leading him to purposely punish and take revenge against himself whereas in the case of Pentheus, his foolish and grumpy attitude leads him to perform actions in temptation which results in unknowingly punishing himself with death by the hands of his own mother and thus helps Dionysus to take revenge against him and his family. Speaking about Oedipus, he was the king of Thebes and an excellent ruler of his times. He believed in being fair to his citizens and was a loving and merciful king. As the entire city of Thebes is attacked by a harmful disease known as plaque, he calls for Tiresias to give a solution to the problem, that is when he learns that he himself is the culprit as he has done brutal deeds of marrying his mother and killing his own father.
The Quote below supports the above thesis statement in detail
Then I would not have come
To kill my father and marry my mother infamously.
Now I am godless and child of impurity,
Begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self.
If there is any ill worse than ill,
That is the lot of Oedipus (Oedipus the King. 1358-1363).
When Oedipus acknowledges the truth of his life, in a moment his feeling of pride in being an honest and loyal king transforms in to someone who is a murderer and not worth being called a human. As we can clearly understand from the above passage that Oedipus is cursing himself as he is the murderer of his father and the woman he married is none other than his own mother. His heart is cluttered with pain and suffering as he comes across the truth about his partner. The word “godless” signifies of being immoral or having a devil attitude and