As we had learned the important parts in Oedipus Rex which is about the changes of Oedipus’ characteristics from a foreboding king to ignorant and ruthless Thebes King.
Indeed, Oedipus’s character is getting darker and darker. We can see from the extracts such as;
“He has brought this decrepit fortune teller, this collector of dirty pennies, this prophet fraud – Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!...”
It shows his pride and arrogance towards Tiresias and patronizes Tiresias because of his blindness.
“ What good were they? Or the gods, for the matter of that?...”: shows that he challenges God.
“That is why I call you a bad friend...”: shows he suspects that Creon is going to take over the throne from him.
From this story, we have to learn several dramatic irony(s) quotations that I found very fascinating and effectively used. The used of dramatic irony is very significant consecutively to allow the audience distinguish the contradiction of each character’s life. Again, the main character remains using dramatic irony dialogue but in the end it does not truly appear. Actually, this character itself suffers since the contradictions which occur in his life. For example, Oedipus says “There is no fairer duty. Than that of helping others in distress”. However, this is very ironic because due to his intention to help others, he will hurt himself in the future as his secret will notify the truth.
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