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This 3 page paper discusses the way the theme of the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy (lies) is treated in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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two plays and the way their characters view reality. Discussion Perhaps the single greatest difference between the two is that Oedipus brings about his own destruction because of who he
is; but Othello is deliberately misled into mistaking a lie for the truth. In the classic Greek play, it is prophesied that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his
mother. In order to thwart the prophesy, his parents abandon him in the wilderness when hes only an infant. But hes found by a shepherd, taken to Corinth and raised
by the king and queen, Polybus and Merope and believes them to be his parents (Sophocles). When the play opens Oedipus is king of Thebes, and a very powerful man.
When the news comes that Polybus is dead of natural causes, he rejoices, because it seems that the prophesy has been avoided. But then the truth comes out: Polybus
was not his real father and Merope was not his mother; in saving him and bringing him to Corinth, the shepherd helped fulfill the prediction because he actually brought him
back to his birthplace. On the road, Oedipus had an argument with a stranger and killed him; that stranger was Laius, his father (Sophocles). And when he saw the beautiful
woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city will suffer for the crimes committed by
someone there and that the plagues will last until the murderer is found and exiled; when Oedipus asks whats to be done, Creon says "By banishing a man, or expiation
/ of blood by blood, since its murder guilt / which holds our city in this destroying storm" (line 100). When the blind prophet Teiresias tells him that he
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