The Themes in Oedipus Rex Essays -- Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

The Themes in Oedipus Rexâ â â â   â Sophocles’ disaster, Oedipus Rex, contains one principle topic, which this exposition will consider. The topic is the general convention or conviction certain in the dramatization, which the writer tries to make influential to the peruser (Abrams 170).  In â€Å"Sophocles’ Moral Themes† Robert D. Murray Jr. refers to a pundit who is carefully moralist in the understanding of the topic of Oedipus Rex:  Let C. M. Bowra represent the moralists:  The focal thought of a Sophoclean catastrophe is that through enduring a man figures out how to be unobtrusive before the divine beings. . . . When [the characters] are at last compelled to see reality, we realize that the divine beings have won and that men must acknowledge their own unimportance.  So, for Bowra, the pith of each play of Sophocles is a message asking quietude and devotion (45).  Van Nortwick, apparently on the side of Bowra, portrays Oedipus’ shocking imperfection as something comparable to the absence of unobtrusiveness before the divine beings which Bowra alludes to:  As ruler, he is a dad to Thebes and its residents, and like a dad he will deal with his â€Å"children.† We see as of now the incomparable self-assurance and simplicity of order in Oedipus, who can address different people’s kids as his own, yet in addition be a dad to men more established than he is. In any case, past even this there is, in the sretched stance of the residents, the trace of surrender before a god. We are â€Å"clinging to your altars,† says the cleric. . . . That he likewise oozes an exceptional authority according to his subjects just reinforces the chivalrous representation. . . .(21-22).  The â€Å"godlike mastery† to which Van Nortwick alludes is a similar authority which Creon in his last lines assigns as the reason for the... ...of Oedipus Rex, altered by Michael J. O’Brien. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968.  Jevons, Frank B.â â€Å"In Sophoclean Tragedy, Humans Create Their Own Fate.† In Readings on Sophocles, altered by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.  Murray, Robert D. Jr. â€Å"Sophocles’ Moral Themes.† In Readings on Sophocles, altered by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.  â€Å"Sophocles† In Literature of the Western World, altered by Brian Wilkie and James Hurt. NewYork: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984.  Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Transl. by F. Storr. no pag. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/peruse blended new?tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/writings/english/modeng/parsed&part=0&id=SopOedi  Van Nortwick, Thomas.â Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Â