Was Oedipus a good man who happened to suffer an unfortunate fate, or was he a truly bad person, whose fate was only just? Oedipus was indeed a good man based on Aristotelian ideals of good and bad. I think the fate that befell him was really a cruel gift from the gods. In his first encounters with the city of Thebes, Oedipus found them under the curse of the Sphinx. He actually gained his …showed first 75 words of 1153 total…

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