aristotelian concept of the greek tragedy as reflected in

oedipus rex
Oedipus rex is a greek tragedy based on Aristotelian concept. But what is
tragedy? Tragedy is a form of drama that tells about the human suffering
that invokes in its audience a strong emotion in an art form.
In Greek tragedy, Aristotles The Poetics is the most famous text written
tragedy. Oedipus was said to be the example of a tragic hero. He is the King
of Thebes, a great solver of riddles and has a strong determination to find
the murderer and end the agony in his people. As to summarize, he is a man
who has a high-standing in social, intellectual and moral.
The story mainly talks about the quest to find the murderer of Laius. Oedipus
thought that it was the group of thieves who murdered Laius but as he
consulted Tiresias, the blind prophet, it said that the one who killed Laius is
he himself, Oedipus. This made Oedipus go back to his wife. As he said what
the prophet said, his wife told him that it was the group of thieves who did
the killing and not him because prophets tell fallacy.
As the story goes, a messenger came to tell that the King of Corinth died and
Oedipus must go home and lead the people. Oedipus and Jocasta rejoice as
the half of the prophecy wasnt true but he still fear the other half. In this
scene, Oedipus search for answer about his life before and how the royalty of
Corinth adopt him. He found answers to his questions that makes it all
clearer to him. In the end, he decided to told Theseus to where he would die
and forbidden his children to go there. After his death, his children said that
theyll weep for the rest of their lives. But the Chorus told them that all
things are in the hands of the gods.
In the end, the prophecy was said to be true and Jocasta just misinterpret the
story because she didnt know that Oedipus was her son. The tragedy tells

that no one can escape his/her fate that whatever they may find ways to
hinder it, it is the gods who had their fates.