Theme Of Hubris In Oedipus

Throughout the Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles, the Greek concept of hubris is a prominent cause of the constant disastrous results. Most characters who show great pride and self-confidence have disastrous consequences. The character most represented by this shortcoming is none other than Oedipus. Oedipus constantly shows his weakness of excessive pride.
After learning about the prophecy, Oedipus ran away from his foster parents [believing they are his real parents] so he wouldn’t fulfil the prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother (42). He tried to avoid the dreadful prophecy, and once he escaped from Corinth, he believed the he went against the prophecy. In his pride, Oedipus instead of escaping the prophecy, got intertwined in it even further. He then began to learn that Thebes housed his real parents. Slowly, he realized that the man he killed was his father (64). Not only hat, his wife was none other than his birth mother.
Not only Oedipus shows hubris, for Antigone is a victim to it too.
While Oedipus was slightly innocent to his faith, and Antigone was trying to do the right thing, Creon had negative cause and effects. After Antigone was put into a prison, the blind seer Teiresias visited. He told Creon that his reaction to Antigone’s “wrong” is extremely rash and the gods have unleashed their fury. Creon takes no heed to the advice and inturn insults Teiresias and the Gods (232). His pride doesn’t allow him to see the future and understand his mistake. When he does acknowledge it, it is to late to save Antigone, for she had already died in her cell. The Gods, with their fury against Creon, made both Haimon and Eurydice commit suicide, asserting the point that pride causes downfall. If Creon had listened to the blind seer earlier and truly regret his mistake, or even better allow Antigone to bury her brother’s body, than this malediction wouldn’t have been placed upon