Aristotle defined Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles as the perfect tragedy. One of the elements in his definition of tragedy included tragic flaw (hamartia), and he said a tragic hero's downfall should be due to his/her tragic flaw. King Oedipus falls from a high status from being a powerful noble king in to a low status by blinding himself and committing a moral sin of killing his father, marrying his mother, and producing an offspring with incest due to his tragic flaws--hubris, rage and short temperedness. In this passage, Oedipus's hubris is demonstrated by one of the literary devices,…
