Oedipus\u2019 family<\/a> are finally laid to rest<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\nThroughout the plays, Oedipus exhibits a strong moral sense<\/strong>. When told that he will murder his father and defile his mother, he does everything he can to escape the fate laid out before him. His fierce pride and sense of right and wrong drive him to try to defy the gods, who have appointed him as the instrument of punishment for his father, Laius. It is not until he has fulfilled the prophecy against him that Oedipus realizes he cannot circumvent the gods\u2019 will<\/strong>, and in the end, he seeks a meaningful end to his life.\u00a0<\/p>\nEven at the very end of his life, Oedipus can be said to suffer from hubris<\/strong>, though he is a much humbler man at the final hours of his life than he was as a young, brash Hero. He believed that he could save his people from the plague, having defeated the Sphinx and her riddle. The very victory that carried him to glory and earned him the title of king was his downfall. Becoming king, and taking the queen as his wife, fulfilled the prophecy. Even as a Hero, he couldn\u2019t escape the will of the gods, and Oedipus died a sadder and humbler man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oedipus is a prominent character in two of Sophocles’ three plays about him and his family. The plays were written over a thirty-six-year span of the playwright\u2019s career, and while they concern events surrounding Oedipus and his family, they are not truly chronological. Sophocles never intended the plays, known as the Theban Plays, to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19094"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21823,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19094\/revisions\/21823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}