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Oedipus Rex The Conflict, Climax and Resolution Sophocles tragic drama, Oedipus Rex, presents to the reader a full range of conflicts and their resolution after a climax. Thomas van Nortwick in The Meaning of a Masculine Life describes Oedipus tragic flaw As ruler, he is a pose to Thebes and its citizens, and like a father he will take care of his children. We see already the supreme self-confidence and liberalization of command in Oedipus, who can address not exactly some other peoples children as his own, but also be a father to men older than he is. But beyond even this there is, in the sretched posture of the citizens, the hint of prostration before a deity. We are clinging to your altars, says the priest. . . . That he also exudes a godlike mastery in the eyes of his subjects only strengthens the heroic portrait. . . .(21-22). The godlike mastery to which Van Nortwick refers is the same mastery which Creon in his last-place lines designates as the cause of the tra gic dimension in the life of the booster amplifier Crave not mastery in all, /For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall. Oedipus total mastery of the investigation resultant from the Delphic oracles declaration, yes, his forceful railroading of the investigation against the wishes of Jocasta, Teiresias, the messenger and the shepherd, ultimately spells the downfall of King Oedipus. Abrams says that the conflict is between the protagonist and antagonist (225). Is the antagoinst within Oedipus in the form of his godlike mastery, as Creon believed? Or is the antagonist weird/wyrd/fate, so that the oracle demonstrated the gods proponent to predestine their creatures? Frank B. Jevons in In... ...shers, 1999. Benardete, Seth. Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus. In Sophocles A Collection of charactericular Essays, change by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Ehrenberg, Victor. Sophoclean Rulers Oedipus. In Twentieth Century Interpret ations of Oedipus Rex, edited by Michael J. OBrien. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Jevons, Frank B. In Sophoclean Tragedy, Humans fix Their Own Fate. In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1997. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Transl. by F. Storr. no pag. http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed new?tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&part=0&id=SopOedi Van Nortwick, Thomas. Oedipus The Meaning of a Masculine Life. Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Oedipus Rex The Conflict, Climax and Resolution Essay -- Oedipus theOedipus Rex The Conflict, Climax and Resolution Sophocles tragic drama, Oedipus Rex, presents to the reader a full range of conflicts and their resolution after a climax. Thomas Van Nortwick in The Meaning of a Masculine Life describes Oedipus tragic flaw As ruler, he is a father to Thebes and its citizens, and like a father he will take care of his children. We see already the supreme self-confidence and ease of command in Oedipus, who can address not only other peoples children as his own, but also be a father to men older than he is. But beyond even this there is, in the sretched posture of the citizens, the hint of prostration before a deity. We are clinging to your altars, says the priest. . . . That he also exudes a godlike mastery in the eyes of his subjects only strengthens the heroic portrait. . . .(21-22). The godlike mastery to which Van Nortwick refers is the same mastery which Creon in his final lines designates as the cause of the tragic dimension in the life of the protagonist Crave not mastery in all, /For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall. Oedipus total mastery of the investigation resultant from the Delphic oracles declaration, yes, his forceful railroading of the investigation against the wishes of Jocasta, Teiresias, the messenger and the shepherd, ultimately spells the downfal l of King Oedipus. Abrams says that the conflict is between the protagonist and antagonist (225). Is the antagoinst within Oedipus in the form of his godlike mastery, as Creon believed? Or is the antagonist weird/wyrd/fate, so that the oracle demonstrated the gods power to predestine their creatures? Frank B. Jevons in In... ...shers, 1999. Benardete, Seth. Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus. In Sophocles A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Ehrenberg, Victor. Sophoclean Rulers Oedipus. In Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex, edited by Michael J. OBrien. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Jevons, Frank B. In Sophoclean Tragedy, Humans Create Their Own Fate. In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1997. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Transl. by F. Storr. no pag. http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed new?tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/e nglish/modeng/parsed&part=0&id=SopOedi Van Nortwick, Thomas. Oedipus The Meaning of a Masculine Life. Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.