So the author of this article basically talks about tragic irony being present in Sophocles's works. The author heavily leans on Oedipus Rex for his/her examples. I find this article compelling because it reiterates something that I have noticed while reading Oedipus Rex. For every line that comes out of his mouth he is foreshadowing his own doom. We know what is going to happen and even his audience partially knows what is going to happen, but he is totally oblivious to it till the end. Constantly through out the entire play, Sophocles makes the characters spout things about there mothers. This is odd and usually meant to be criticizing, but ironically foreshadowing of the events. They conversations even lead to the concepts of lust. Though by dialogue they are talking about conspiracies, Sophocles has thrown that in for the irony of the use of the word and the sin called lust. In fact Tiresias even shouted the entire prophecy and everything that is known to Oedipus and to Jocasta. Still no one realized anything. The irony of the truth being made aware and then the main character suffering the fate that was assigned to him, practically, by the oracles is simply tragic and nothing else. Oedipus curses himself for the murder of King Laius, his father, and curses himself of the murderer be found to be in his family. The irony that he is found to be the murderer is also tragic. This makes it seem like he brought the suffering on himself by pursuing everything so much. By pursuing the search for the murderer, he found that he killed his father, and by pursuing the search for his mother, he found that he has made love to, has had children (referred to as monsters as well), and has fulfilled the prophecy that he has been running from (and forced to make distance from) since even before he was born. This article compelled to me because it confirmed my thoughts as I read the play myself.
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