Sophocles's immortal and mythical play, Oedipus
            Rex is believed to be one of the best classical examples of tragedy.
            Aristotle's theorizings in the Poetics were modelled on the tragedy
            of Oedipus, the king of Thebes. The play is adjudged as a great example of tragic drama
            on the basis of the following:
a) The play has a very
            well-constructed plot that arouses the twin emotions of pity
            and fear, and achieves the tragic
            katharsis;
b) The play shows the
            downfall of an exceptional human being belonging to high
            rank/station;
c) The plot involves both
            peripety(''reversal") and
            anagnorisis("recognition") and, what is more, these two moments are
            co-incidental;
d) The protagonist suffers because of a
            tragic error or hamartia; he kills his father, Laius, and marries
            his mother, Jocasta;
e) The protagonist's error is caused
            by hubris, a form of pride that goes before a
            fall.
Sophocles's play dramatizes the painful
            mystery of pre-ordained suffering of an extra-ordinary human being, fate/circumstances
            bringing about the downfall of an exemplary individual.
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