The core questions that emerge from my analysis of the play include whether Oedipus’s moral (and arguably honorable) intentions nullify the immorality of his acts, and whether knowledge of the immorality is a precondition for culpability. Investigation of these dynamics suggest that the most imperative facet in determining Oedipus’s guilt is determined by the extent to which he was conscious and deliberate in his vanity, the murder of his father, and marrying his mother. Certain elements of his behavior should be considered in a manner that supersedes any one culture. That said, there are elements of this analysis that look beyond the mores of ancient Greece in the evaluation of Oedipus’s actions, and thus, analyzing this play is helpful in navigating complex questions of justice in our time. My primary focus is the extent to which Oedipus is guilty in the original context of the play, ancient Greece, and therefore whether or not any attendant shame is warranted. These questions are timeless they certainly maintain salience in modernity. Sophocles’s Oedipus the King introduces important questions about the nature of justice and calls into discussion what warrants guilt and shame.
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