Oedipus the Everything but King

No Name World Literature 1 Character abbreviation Oedipus the King Hunter, Plowman, and Sailor-Helmsman Throughout the play Oedipus Rex, the main character Oedipus has a derive of different character traits throughout the play. His out-look on the stories situation evolves as he begins to learn the truth about who he re completelyy is. Oedipus takes on the characteristics of a hunter as well as becoming the hunted he is a sower yet also the seed, and a sailor-helmsman of the city. Each of these images has their proclaim significance.Oedipus jump starts out as the hunter once he marries the queen of Thebes. in one case betrothed, Oedipus is told that, Laius, the late king of Thebes was murdered by a robber. Oedipus says that he depart exile or execute Laius killer once he is found. The ridicule to his state custodyt is that he will have to catch and exile himself because in actuality he is the man who killed Laius. Oedipus then goes from being the hunter to the hunted, not know ing the man he is looking for is actually him himself.He proceeds to tell his men to Hunt him down with all your strength yet in total hes telling his men to hunt him which makes him the hunted. Oedipus asks Tiresias to speak on behalf of what he knows and when he does not this upsets him. Oedipus begins to mock Tiresias about the fact that he cannot see and in return Tiresias says the same thing to Oedipus. Tiresias is blind but he is the one who sees Oedipus future clearly and Oedipus is not and cant see what his future holds at all.In mocking Tiresias, Oedipus reaps the consequences of his actions because he later takes his own sight. Oedipus is also considered a sower because he married and had children however he is his develops seed and ironically he married and reproduced with his commence. By interpretation plowman prep are the fields with seeds and expect plants to be produced. Oedipus and widowed tabby Jocasta marry, are intimate and reproduce children.The imagery is the same for Jocasta and her first keep up King Laius as that for her second husband, Oedipus like father, like son as it turns out. The Sailor-helmsman is in essence is the person who guides a ship. Oedipus being king of Thebes is speculate to steer the people out of harms way. Oedipus view that he was doing the right thing by leaving the place he thought was home when he was told he would kill his father and marry his mother only the thing was the parents he knew of in Corinth were not his actual parents.After Oedipus leaves Corinth, because of all that he has done he has brought a plague amongst his city, the city of Thebes. The citizens are passengers of the ship watching as their captain and his vessel fall to pieces. whole of these images were ironically tied into showing the positives and negatives that contributed to Oedipus demise. However, this was not all Oedipus fault because somewhere down the family line Oedipus family was cursed and he had nothing to do with it, h e was just the one who would complete the curse which leads to his undoing.