Oedipus The Great Essay

In the book Oedipus The King, there was a curse that stated that Oedipus was to kill his father, Laius, and espouse his mother, Jocasta. So when Oedipus pargonnts find out that Jocasta is pregnant they have the baby and give it to a reality to take to the top of a mountain. But instead of the man taking the baby, Oedipus, to the mountain top he gave him to a family and the family then raised Oedipus. When Oedipus was honest-to-goodnesser he was traveling to the town of Thebes when he ran across some mess that demanded that Oedipus get off the road and let them get pass.Being himself Oedipus got mad and killed them all, what he did not k straight off was that that was his father and when he got to Thebes he would marry his mother, the queen, and bring forth the new king of Thebes. Oedipus always had trouble controlling his anger and in that moment it went all down hill. In Oedipus The King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus exhibits the following sad flaws he jumps to conclusions, hes controlling, he has anger problems, and hes to a fault positive(p). The first tragic flaw of Oedipus is his problem of jumping to conclusions.In each bad situation with Oedipus, which happens to be quite frequent, he always assumes something before a conclusion ever occurs. He never proficient waits to see what soul has to say or to see what happens, its like he always controls the ending of every situation and he likes it until everything goes wrong. In the book Oedipus jumps to the conclusion that Tiresias is conspiring with Creon to maintain the secret that they had killed King Laius. He does not consider the fact that they are looking out for him so that he wont expose himself.But Tiresias at long last gets tired of the things that Oedipus is saying and he says, I am going. But first I will say what I came here to say The man you are trying to find, with your threatening proclamations, the murderer of Laius that man is here in Thebes He will be revealed as brother an d father of his children with whom he now lives, the countersign and husband of the woman who gave him birth, the murderer and marriage partner of his father. Go think this out.And if you find that I am wrong, then say I have no skill in prophecy, Tiresias then leaves Oedipus standing there stunned(Oedipus the King pg. 40). After that Oedipus gets so upset and starts to yell and starts to tell the people of Thebes that Tiresias and Creon are lying. That they just want the blame off of themselves and on to him. He says this because he does not believe it and because he wants to make a scene and just wants to be the concenter of attention and he wants everyone on his side just in case something happens and he need someone to stick up for him.And because Oedipus is the king the people will listen to him because they trust him and they trust what he says when he says that he did not kill Laius. Another tragic flaw of Oedipus is the fact that hes controlling. Oedipus controls, healthf ul he tries to control, everything that everyone does. He never wants anyone to say anything about Laius death or about his background. He tries to control every situation, every chat and so forth. When he was talking to Tiresias, Tiresias decided to leave because his conversation with Oedipus was getting nowhere.Tiresias said, I will go, then. Boy, lead me away, and then Oedipus say, thinking he had to, said, Yes take him away. While youre here you are a hindrance, a nuisance once out of the way you wont annoy me any more. (Oedipus the King pg. 30 & 31). He ruling that would make him seem in control of Tiresias life and the things he did in his life but Tiresias did not like that and he came back at Oedipus tear down harder making Oedipus go to his palace and think about what has just happened.The only logical thing that Oedipus could have been in control of was the town of Thebes because he was now the new king of Thebes, but everything was messed up when everyone found out that he had killed their previous king Laius. The next tragic flaw of Oedipus is his anger problems. In every situation with Oedipus he always ends up yelling at someone. He cant control his feelings and this problem will eventually end his life. Like with the conversation he was having with Creon they ended up having a screaming match because of Oedipus and his horrible tragic flaw of jumping to conclusions.Creon found out that Oedipus has put the death of their old king Laius in his and Tiresias hands. When Creon confronts Oedipus, Oedipus gets angry and says to Creon, You What are you doing here? Do you have the face to come to my palace-you who are convicted as my murderer, exposed as a forager attempting to steal my throne? . He gets upset and has to have his wife/ mother, help get him under control and calmed down He acts like a itsy-bitsy kid and the one somebody who can help keep him under control is his wife/ mother. Another tragic flaw of Oedipus is the fact that he is alike confident.Its okay to be confident in yourself and what you do, but when you become too confident you can become cocky and sometimes over-bearing which indeed happens to Oedipus. Oedipus always goes roughly boasting about how he is king and that no one should step to him because he could have them killed, how he was the one to solve the riddle so he earned the the spot as king. With Oedipus, he takes the concept of being confident to a whole other level. He makes it seems as though being confident is something that should be thought about because it tears it whole world apart.So throughout Oedipus life he has been lied to and made and a fool of and principally by himself. Oedipus problems are mainly because of his tragic flaws. His tragic flaws are the fact that he jumps to conclusions, hes controlling, he has anger problems, and hes too confident. Maybe some people may say that being confident is a good thing and that people should be confident but when you go to overboard and be outrageous with it, it just makes people hate you and try to make other people see that you are a horrible person and have a horrible personality.