... committed parricide and incest, yet he does not have any acknowledgement that he committed these dissolute acts. He cannot be held accountable for his actions. Aristotle quotes, "for a moral act to possess moral consequence there must be consciousness of the will" (Lynch 22). This quote accurately describes Oedipus's state of being. Through all of this, drama going on in his city he ... together and Oedipus is slowly conceding the reality of his past. It is hard to except that he is the murder of his own father. Oedipus is awakened from his moral life and exposed to a world of perversio...

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