Oedipus Rex is definitely a tragedy. There is no way around it. He is cursed to murder his father and sleep with his mother, and to avoid it leaves his parents. It turns out that they aren't actually his parents and he ends up accidentally killing his real father and marrying his real mother and having children. Ew! When he figures this out, he goes to confront his mother and finds that she has hanged herself. Oedipus then proceeds to gauge his own eyes out with the broaches from his mother/wife's dress. He is then exiled for the murder of his father. It is a tragedy in the fact that it could have been avoided and Oedipus tried to avoid it, but by avoiding it he caused it to happen. The tragedy of Oedipus is not his own. It is the tragedy of his mother. It is the tragedy of his children, who could not have avoided this and will be affected forever. A tragedy cannot be a tragedy if only one person in negatively affected. In tragedy's, just about everyone is affected somehow. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles does well to follow the six elements of tragedy as set by Aristotle. It really sets itself apart as one of the best tragedy's ever written and that ever will be written
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