... its most effective impact on the crowd or the reader were Reversal and Recognition. These two things are used very well during the course of the play with great effect. To put it simply Oedipus starts out at the beginning of the play as the great man that defeated the sphinx, who knows and sees all, ironically at the end the reversal comes when he ends up being the humiliated blind man, the king turned to exile. In terms of recognition there is the classic example of this in Oedipus rex. A majority of the book focuses on the fact that he can not see that he is the problem, refuses to believe. Then there is the most climatic end when releases the truth especially because the truth is so horrific. Thus we can see the main two things that ............. Says makes a play are present in the Tragedy, ...

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