Is Oedipus The True Tragic Hero?
Aristotle described tragedy in his poetics as "a man not preeminently virtuous and just, whose misfortune, however, is brought upon him not by vice or depravity, but by some error in judgment... the change in the hero's fortune must not be from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery". He went on further to describe Sophocles's Oedipus Rex as the best tragedy ever written, as it illustrates perfectly the goodness and superiority of the character, his tragic flaw that will ultimately lead to the downfall of Oedipus, the character'…
