Oedipus Rex

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Term Paper Title	Oedipus Rex
# of Words	693
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.77

Oedipus Rex

The play "Oedipus Rex" is a very full and lively one to say
the least. Everything a reader could ask for is included in this
play. There is excitement, suspense, happiness, sorrow, and
much more. Truth is the main theme of the play. Oedipus
cannot accept the truth as it comes to him or even where it
comes from. He is blinded in his own life, trying to ignore the
truth of his life. Oedipus will find out that truth is truth, it is
rock solid.
The story is mainly about a young man named Oedipus who
is trying to find out more knowledge than he can handle. The
story starts off by telling us that Oedipus has seen his moira,
his fate, and finds out that in the future he will end up killing
his father and marrying his mother. Thinking that his mother
and father were Polybos and Merope, the only parents he
knew, he ran away from home and went far away so he
could change his fate and not end up harming his family.
Oedipus will later find out that he cannot change fate
because he has no control over it, only the God's can control
what happens.
Oedipus is a very healthy person with a strong willed mind
who will never give up until he gets what he wants.
Unfortunately, in this story these will not be good trait to
have. Oedipus goes on with his journey not knowing about
what he is going to do next. Oedipus runs into some people
at a crossing on this journey and quarrels with them to there
death. After this, he goes along to a city named Thebes
where he outsmarted a beast that was cursing the city. He
received praise and joy. While gaining the trust of all that
lived there he quickly became King of Thebes. The people
loved him because he was such a great leader. He was such
a great king because he had a lot of love for his people and
would do anything in his power to make them happy. As a
result of this, Oedipus finds out that the city is in trouble
unless the killer of their late king is found and punished. Little
does Oedipus know that he is the ...

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