In the final confrontation between Claudius, Laertes and Hamlet their colliding motives leads to the death of each person. Family bonds and friendships are broken as death begins to claim their loved ones and vengeance becomes the primary mindset of the characters.
As the play progresses, three prominent themes of death, revenge, and madness drive the plot to its wretched end. Death is the most obvious and reoccurring theme displayed in Hamlet beginning with the death of King Hamlet. Was it but the mockery of penitence? A mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itself. His ruination of the reputation of the King of Thebes and the father of his household begins when he accuses his subjects and becomes stubborn to make a compromise.
For example, Creon accuses the soldier of taking bribe and not following his order. In the novel Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus Rex exhibits many flaws throughout the play. However, one can conclude that he had two major flaws; which were, his ability to quickly accuse others instead of owning up to his mistakes, and his obsession with being the hero. One must also glance back at the mistakes that Oedipus made along the play. Human beings have been baffled by existential questions and conflicts throughout history, and we humans attempt to answer these questions and reconcile these conflicts through various cultural depictions of gods and goddesses, religion, and spirituality.
In The Odyssey, Homer writes of numerous gods and goddesses, intimately known by his hero Odysseus and his Ancient Greek audience. The gods and goddesses. Oedipus Rex was born with the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother. His parents try and get around the prophecy by giving away their son. Oedipus grows up not knowing not knowing anything about this he has his big prophecy over his head. In the play, Oedipus the King, Oedipus Rex is the tragic hero who tries to defy his fate; to kill his father and marry his mother.
The quest for truth collapses into a battle of wits and words, with Oedipus bragging of his victory over the Sphinx instead of pursuing the murderer of Laius. In a rage, Oedipus declares that Tiresias and Creon must be plotting against him.
Tiresias replies with dark hints of Oedipus' corruption and his fate. At last, the furious Oedipus orders Tiresias away. Oedipus' address to the people of Thebes offers yet another opportunity for dramatic irony. Describing himself as "a stranger to the story" of the king's murder, Oedipus nevertheless declares that he will fight for Laius "as if he were my father" The double identity of Oedipus as both son and murderer of Laius reverberates through this episode, especially in the revelations of Tiresias.
The blind prophet's clear assertion that Oedipus is the murderer, as well as his subtler references to Oedipus' marriage, should end all suspense in the drama. And yet the tension heightens when the prophecy evokes Oedipus' fury, leading to the angry confrontation between the prophet and the king.
As a prophet who is both blind and clairvoyant, Tiresias represents the ambiguous nature of all spiritual power. Prophecies, like the words of the oracle, tend to be apparent only in hindsight.
Fate vs. Free Will. Related Quotes with Explanations. Now angry, Oedipus accuses Tiresias of plotting to kill Laius. This upsets Tiresias, who tells Oedipus that Oedipus himself is the cause of the plague—Oedipus is the murderer of Laius. As the insults fly back and forth, Tiresias hints that Oedipus is guilty of further outrages. Oedipus, thinking he understands more than he does, is too quick to judge Tiresias. Though Tiresias is a noted seer, Oedipus is too angry to listen to him.
Oedipus convinces himself that Creon has put Tiresias up to making these accusations in attempt to overthrow him. He mocks Tiresias's blindness and calls the man a false prophet. The leader of the chorus tries to calm the two men down. Tiresias warns Oedipus that Oedipus is the blind one—blind to the corrupt details of his own life. Oedipus, a man of action, describes blindness as an inability to see.
Tiresias, the seer, describes it as an inability to see the truth. In calling Tiresias a false prophet, Oedipus shows his willingness to fight against any prophecy he disagrees with. As the men continue to argue, Tiresias prophesies that Oedipus will know who his parents are by the end of the day, and that this knowledge will destroy him.
He leaves with a riddle: the killer of Laius is a native Theban whom many think is a foreigner; he will soon be blind; he is both brother and father to his children; he killed his own father. Both men exit. The riddle is a reference to the riddle of the Sphinx. Solving that riddle gave Oedipus his fame. Solving this one will destroy him. In other words, Oedipus's own qualities doom him. This riddle is pretty obvious, but Oedipus is not ready or willing to solve it. The chorus enters, chanting about the murderer of Laius, pursued now by the gods and the words of a prophecy.
The chorus concludes that it will not believe the serious charges brought against Oedipus without proof.
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