... character come out many times in the course of the play. Sophocles sets up Oedipus' tragic flaw as pride. The prologue that the audience already knows sets up a reason for Oedipus to be proud- he has solves the riddle of the Sphinx. This great feat has landed him the job of king of the city of Thebes ... , where he married the recently-murdered king's wife and rules solely the city that now has a plague upon it. In his opening speech to the commoners of his city, Oedipus brags about his ability to ... be the only to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, and that he, of course for he is such a...

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