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Oedipus the King “Ankle Theory”
The classification of “Oedipus the King” as a tragedy requires it to meet certain criteria pertaining to the main character, Oedipus. Oedipus must have no control over the situation which he is in, he has to have been harmed by someone for doing nothing or doing what is just, and he must come to an end in which he is utterly lost, or dies without r ....
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.... fault that he was destined to do what he was. A second example of this, when Oedipus does in fact kill his father, he is met at the crossroads and attacked by his father’s men, through no fault of his own. Once again this displays the symbolism of his ankles being pierced as a child, meeting the second of the three criteria.
Finally, in the end, as in all Greek tragedies, Oedipus must come to an unhappy ending in which he dies, or is utterly lo ....
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