Characterization in Oedipus the King Essay -- Oedipus the King Oedipus

Characterization in Oedipus Rex The dialogue, action and motivating revolve about the timbres in the story (Abrams 32-33). It is the purpose of this essay to give the types of characters present in Sophocles tragic drama, Oedipus Rex, whether static or dynamic, whether flat or round, and whether protrayed through showing or telling. Werner Jaeger in Sophocles Mastery of Character knowledge pays the dramatist the very highest compliment with regard to character development The ineffaceable embossment which Sophocles makes on us today and his imperishable position in the literary productions of the world are both due to his character-drawing. If we ask which of the men and women ofGreek cataclysm have an independent life in the imagination apart from the phase and from the actual plot in which they appear, we must answer, those created by Sophocles, above every others (36). Surely it can be said of Sophocles main characters that they grow beyond the two dimensional aspec t into really rounded physical presences. This is through through mostly the showing technique, though the chorus at propagation is involved in telling the audience various pieces of entropy. At the scratch of Oedipus Rex the reader sees a king who comes to the door full of curiosity beg off your mood and purport. Is it dread /Of ill that moves you or a boon ye entreat? When the priest has responded that the people are despairing from the effects of the plague, the king shows another(prenominal) dimension to his character with his deep sympathy for his subjects Ye sicken all, well wot I, but my pain, /How great soever yours, outtops it all. Shortly thereafter a second round character makes his appearance on stage in the pers... ...and Creon become so subsequent in the tragedy. Rarely does the dramatist use the chorus to convey information most of this comes from exchanges of dialogue, which would be the showing technique. WORKS CITED Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of literary Te rms, 7th ed. New York Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Ehrenberg, Victor. Sophoclean Rulers Oedipus. In Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex, edited by Michael J. OBrien. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Jaeger, Werner. Sophocles Mastery of Character Development. In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1997. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Transl. by F. Storr. no pag. http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed rude(a)?tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&part=0&id=SopOedi