... bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin- clawing up to the heights, headlong pride crashes down the abyss- sheer doom! (Sophocles 963-967) You see the chorus foreshadowing how this quality will be the ruin of him. They now that pride, when you have too much, can be a life-ruining thing. Yet also Oedipus's determination was also a major ... in this realization is shown when he shouts above all: Oh, Ohhh- the agony! I am agony- where am I going? Where on earth? Where does all this agony hurl me? My destiny, my dark power, what a leap you made! (Sophocles 1442-1448) Oedipus n...

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