Oedipus Rex: An Analysis

An analysis of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, who concentrated the interest in this play upon a single point of time, converting it into a picture of the blindness and fallibility of mankind. To effect this purpose he devotes the greater part of the play to the gradual discovery of the murder and the incest, and makes Oedipus himself the author of the discovery, and the unconscious agent in his own destruction.