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Oedipus, The King of Thebes plays a protagonist in the play Oedipus Rex
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Jacob McClellan October 31,2005 English 1302.001 Essay # 2 Oedipus, The King of Thebes plays a protagonist in the play Oedipus Rex, which I have chosen to analyze in this paper. Oedipus who runs away from his native Greek home, in which he was raised to believe. He was also raised to believe that he was the natural son of Polybus, the King of Corinth, who adopted him from Corinthian herdsman who found him in the wilderness. That person who laid Oedipus upon a hillside in the wilderness, was a servant instructed by Lauis and Jacasta, king and queen among the great city of Thebes, to take the baby to the wilderness to incarcerate. The servant could not bear killing the innocent child, so he handed it over to the Corinthian herdsman. The mediator of good and evil as he perceives himself, Oedipus yet doesn't know who his biological parents are. Until, one...
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