Compose a 1250 words essay on Figurative Language Depicts the Struggle with Freewill Against Fate Oedipus Suffers. Needs to be plagiarism free!Download file to see previous pages... The researcher sta

Compose a 1250 words essay on Figurative Language Depicts the Struggle with Freewill Against Fate Oedipus Suffers. Needs to be plagiarism free!

The researcher states that when the reader gets to Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus faces a new struggle where his fate is yet again challenging his idea of free will. Oedipus is charged with finding the killer of Laios in order to bring an end to the struggling of his people, including himself and his children. Oedipus sends Creon to Apollo to find out why his people are suffering. Upon returning, Creon tells Oedipus that they must find the killer and bring that killer to justice in order to end the suffering. The plotline once again brings about the concept of struggling with free will based on the fate that is already plotted. Sophocles uses figurative language to show the reader this major theme in his third work. In Oedipus Tyrannos Sophocles uses similes, metaphors, imagery, and comparisons to describe Oedipus’ struggle with his fate, as well as the belief that he has free will. To show how the theme (the struggle with freewill against fate) is further explained by figurative language, the use of similes, metaphors, and imagery will be explored. Similes are a form of figurative language found in a work of literature. The author looks for a comparison between two things. in such cases “like” or “as” can be used. “He arose for our land like a tower against death,” is a simile in which “he” is likened to a tower that stood against death. It also brings the theme into focus. Death implies that there is suffering or pain. The theme of struggling with freewill against fate is clear because the people are suffering and they need a leader who can rise against that suffering to provide a better life. “He” in this case is Oedipus, who became king, a leader who tries to fight against fate for a better outcome, but in vain. In the beginning, Oedipus is trying to find who killed Laios. He is unaware of being the killer himself and is thus the person who must be punished in order for his people to be relieved. The simile mentions “he arose for our land” which further implies there is a relation between Oedipus and some type of predestined path. There is a second example of a simile that shows Oedipus and his struggle with freewill and fate, “a dark shower of blood came down like hail”. This phrase is referring to his blindness when he jabbed out his eyes. It was his fate to become blind due to his original struggles after sleeping with his mother and killing his father. The simile has likened blood to the appearance of hail which is a larger and more damaging form of rain and snow. The more important aspect of the simile is to show that fate once again caused Oedipus’s suffering. Fate is most cruel for a fellow like Oedipus who has struggled against it. he is going down the fateful path. Oedipus has been considered the one to kill Laios, though he denies it fully in the beginning. He even tries to blame the person accusing him, as well as those around him. A simile is close to a metaphor in that a comparison between two things is made. but with a metaphor two very unlike things can be used to create an impression there is a similarity between them. It can also be a descriptor like “who has eyes only for gain, but is blind in his art”. In this case eyes and gain are the two things being discussed in the quote with a further reference to blindness and art. Eyes are something we use for sight in order to see what is around us. In the metaphor the concept of gaining with our eyes means that Creon, whom the quote refers to, is only looking at the problem to see where he can reach success or find benefit for himself, rather than other people or Oedipus.