Oedipus the King: Does Oedipus Satisfy the Definition of a Good Man? Es

Does Oedipus Satisfy the Definition of a undecomposed Man? As a young military personnel, Oedipus learned of his fate to down his father and marry his mother. Oedipus flees to a distant land to escape his arch fate and inadvertently fulfills the prophecy. Unknowingly, Oedipus kills his father and enters the bed of his mother. Was Oedipus was a good humanity who happened to suffer an unfortunate fate, or was he a truly vainglorious person, whose fate was only just? If we accept the Aristotelian views of good and bad, as expressed in The Good, Oedipus was indeed a good man by saving the metropolis, ruling justly and searching for the truth although his anger could be seen as a flaw. In his first dealings with the city of Thebes, Oedipus engraft them under the curse of the Sphinx. He actually gained his position of King of Thebes by rendering unto the city a great service, namely the salvation of the city from the Sphinxs plague. Aristotle praised the type of cleverness and pra ctical wisdom Oedipus exhibited in his solution to the filter as being a component of all overall goodness. If it were not for Oedipus unadulterated action in saving Thebes, the citizens would have suffered untold disasters at the inclement hands of the Sphinx. After proving his worth as a good man and his concern for the citizens of what was seemingly a foreign city, Oedipus was well liked by the people of Thebes. The people of Thebes liked their ruler, and he in turn command over them in a good and just way, trying to religious service them in their times of need. Aristotle believed that good in man existed in doing his air well. A good carpenter was one who worked with his wood and built things as best as possible a good ruler presided over his people justly. Oedipus was a go... ...lege Publishers, 1999. Aristotle. The Good. Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Ed. Bernard F. Dukore. Fort Worth Harcourt, 1974. Benardete, Seth. Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus. In Sophocles A Coll ection of exact Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Dodds, E. R. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Michael J. OBrien. New Jersey Prentice-Hall, 1968. 17-29. Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 8th ed. Upper burden River, NJ Prentice Hall, 1999. Knox, Bernard M. W. The Heroic Temper Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley U of calcium Press, 1964. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. An Introduction to Literature, 11th ed.Eds. Sylvan Barnet, et al. New York Longman, 1997.