오이디푸스왕 줄거리

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희곡 오이디푸스왕의 줄거리 요약입니다. (영문)

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Oedipus the King is a very well-known story to us as a fragment of the Greek Roman myths. Even before the play starts, lots of things happened in the story. King Liaus of Thebes heard an oracle that his son will kill him and sleep with his wife. He was so shocked and decided to kill his son. So he delivered his baby to his servant ordering to kill him. However, the baby whose name was Oedipus didn`t die and was raised in the court of the king Polybus who didn`t have a child. One day, when Oedipus grew up, he heard a rumor that Polybus is not his biological father, and he went to Delphic Oracle to ask if this rumor is true. Not getting a clear answer, he left the court and went to Thebes. While he was going there, he met a man and had a quarrel with him. In the end, Oedipus killed the man, without knowing that the man is his biological father. In Thebes, he solved the riddle of Sphinx who had bothered people in Thebes and drove her out from the city. Due to this achievement, he became the king of Thebes and married to the queen, his biological mother.
In the beginning of the play, people in Thebes supplicate the king Oedipus to save from the disaster which prevails in the city. Thebes` people get the punishment for Oedipus` guilt. Oedipus becomes to know that the disaster results from the death of Liaus who was the former king of Thebes, and that the man who killed him should be exiled from the city.

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