m, he still does not believe that he is the murderer and must find the shepard. Iocaste tries to warn him saying, “For God’s love, let us have no more questioning! Is your life nothing to you? My own is pain enough for me to bear (I iii 140-2),” and he replies to her that she “…need not worry. Suppose my mother a slave, and born of slaves: no baseness can touch you (I iii 143-4).” Oedipus assumes that she is only worrying about whether or not his birth is a noble one when, in fact, she realizes that Oedipus was the baby that she sent away. He does not believe that the gods have nothing to do with his life and instead believes, “ But I am a child of Luck, I cannot be dishonored (I iii 161).” Finally, when he realizes that he killed Laios, he stabs himself in the eyes because of his pride, which made him blind.Oedipus’s pride is a part of the central theme within Sophocles’s play Oedipus. His pride also is a main part of his character flaw which makes him a tragic hero. His pride was the cause of several different occurences that happened to the characters in the story including: effecting his country through the plague, effecting his parents through fulfilling the profecy, and effecting his own life and his eventual downfall through making himself blind. ...
