Men of Thebes: look upon Oedipus. This is the king who solved the famous riddle And towered up, most powerful of men. No mortal eyes but booked on him with envy, Yet in the end ruin swept over him. The first half of the ending of the Sophocles shows the rising action, climax and the falling action of the tragedy. It implies the definition of tragedy: One of high station due to a flaw (Hamatia) …showed first 75 words of 454 total…

…showed last 75 words of 454 total…without realizing that much of his life is out of his control, is very proud of who he is. Because of his excessive pride he is blinded to the truth and thinks that luck is always by his side until he discovers the truth and exclaims "God. God. Is there a sorrow greater?" (222). As Choragos says here, "let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain" (228).