Also, Oedipus has a deep belief in justice. He is willing to do the right thing and help his people, rather than turn a blind eye to them. In the beginning of the play, when the people of Thebes are suffering, Oedipus makes it clear that the pain felt by his people is also felt by himself, and that he will do anything to alleviate their unhappiness. Oedipus is a morally good individual, even though he commits certain acts that a modern audience might find troubling. This is as it should be, given that Aristotle based many of his arguments as to what a true tragedy and tragic hero should be on Sophocles’ plays.
Oedipus fits the six qualities laid out by Aristotle perfectly, as if they had been molded for him. When Jocasta gets word of this she hangs her self.In Sophocles‘ play Oedipus the King, the title character fits all aspects of Aristotle‘s formula for the characteristics of a tragic hero. Then realizes that he did kill king Laius, also his father, and married his mother Jocasta so he considered him self-the foulest of all mortals. On his way to Thebes he stopped at the place were they say the king was killed and faut and killed a group of men and a man in a horse drawn wagon that resembled that of the man Jocasta had spoken of. Unknown to his parents he went to Delphi to talk to Apollo he said "you are fated to couple with your mother, you will bring a breed of children into the light no man can beat to see-you will kill your father, the one who gave you life!" That is why he went to Thebes that way he wouldn't kill his father and marry his mother.
He then recollects on a time in Corinth, were he is from, of a time that a man told him that he was not the son of Polybus, king of Corinth. Then he begins to recall that he also killed some men at that same place and about the same time, but he still doesn't believe that it could have been him.
Then Oedipus starts to question when Laius was killed and where he was killed. She tells him about a son that she and king Laius had but the son was sent off by a henchman to fling on a barren, trackless mountain. Jocasta also tells Oedipus things that he should take as hints as to his past and present. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with-who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of you own flesh and blood the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your fathers curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding you eyes that now can see the light"(lines 468-479). Tiresias even says that Oedipus is the blind one that cant see what is going on, he says" so, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. Tiresias says "I say you are the murderer you hunt" (line 413), but Oedipus still refuses to see that he is killer and mocks Tiresias because he cannot see and science he cant see he is lying. Finally Tiresias comes out and says to Oedipus that he is the killer. Tiresias tries telling Oedipus discretely that he is the killer, but Oedipus cannot see because he is blind to see the truth. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he cannot tell because he would not like the answer that he is going to give, but Oedipus orders him too speak. When Tiresias arrives, Oedipus asks him to tell him who killed Laius. Tiresias will tell Oedipus the truth on who killed Laius. The elders suggest that Oedipus consult the blind prophet Tiresias. There are many factors in the story that give Oedipus hints and clues that tell him that he killed king Laius, his father, and married his mother Jocasta. He has also been destined to kill his father and marry his mother, which he knows he's destined but does not see that he already has.
Little does he know that he, a few years prior, was the one who killed king Laius. Oedipus has been chosen to look for the murderer of the former king, Laius. In "Oedipus The King" by Sophocles, we see a man, Oedipus, who can see but cannot see at the same time.
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