Oedipus
is a character that brave, intelligent, responsible, and confidence. Oedipus solved
the riddle that Sphinx asked and became the king of Thebes because he is brave and
intelligent. He loves his people and wants to remove the pollution for the city
because he is responsible. He believes he can find out the killer of Laius
because he is confidence. However, these are also his weaknesses that lead him
to his destiny and his end. The strongest qualities of a person also can hurt,
mislead, and blind him.
Your strongest
qualities help you get want you want, but it avoids you from good advices as
well. When Oedipus is close to his real birth, Jocasta advises him to give up. “Oedipus:
It is impossible that when I have found such signs, I will not discover my
birth. Jocasta: No, by the gods! If indeed you care for your own life, do not
go after this! (Sophocles 1080)” Oedipus is a person that will find the answer
that he needs and wants to know, and this is one of his strongest qualities. He
does not give up until he achieves his goals, and the strength makes him a good
king. Nevertheless, this spirit make him ignore Jocasta’s advise that stop
discover his birth and lead him to perish. Jocasta wishes Oedipus could stop discover
his birth because she knows the answer. She also knows that when Oedipus finds
his birth, it will destroy himself and it will not end well. Although Jocasta
gives Oedipus a good advice, he trusts himself because finding the answers helped
him to be successful and this is his strength. When people rely on their
strengths too much and do not listen to other advice, tragedy will happen.
Kaiqiang--here is my comment--for some reason blog wouldn't let me post--you have a good focus on Oedipus's strengths and I am thinking you are going to show how these same qualities lead him to his fate. You need to get some help from the Writing Center regarding word forms especially--adjectives versus nouns. You discover your origins, not your birth--that's just an idiom.
Kaiqiang--here is my comment--for some reason blog wouldn't let me post--you have a good focus on Oedipus's strengths and I am thinking you are going to show how these same qualities lead him to his fate. You need to get some help from the Writing Center regarding word forms especially--adjectives versus nouns. You discover your origins, not your birth--that's just an idiom.
Kaiqiang Fan
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