As described by Aristotle, it is essential that a genuine and effective tragedy tells the story of a person of noble stature falling from his or her greatness, resulting in an increasing of awareness or some gain of self-knowledge. Sophocles, a master playwright of his time, supremely accomplished this task with his play Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex can be described as an unsurpassed masterpiece of success gone to ruin; a profound statement of the human …showed first 75 words of 930 total…

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