Oedipus Is Dead: The Destiny Of My King.

SUMMARY.The inveterate play Oedipus the King, reflected in the exponential tragedy of the playwright Sophocles, projected in Greek literature an array of lyrical-philosophical adversities based on the misfortune of its events. Despite the fact that Oedipus is presented as a brave, honest and just individual in terms of his mandate; in spite of having been postulated as the "perfect king" in front of society, he did not have any kind of margin of possibility to escape from his tragic, unjust and painful destiny; therefore, Sophocles imposed a regime based on the convictions of the Greek myth elaborated by Oedipus himself. With respect to the aforementioned, the pragmatics of the play is executed in an approach to Greek mythology, spiritual dogma and the normalisation of paternalistic thinking based on machismo.Key words.Tragedy - destiny – fate – regime - adversities.INTRODUCTION.The theme prefigured suggests that humans cannot escape their destiny. Using Oedipus as a product of this concept, a prolonged series of events surrounds and binds the misfortune of his actions. Thus, the narrative projects arrogance, irrationalism, and skepticism through moral judgment without criteria. Although this has been termed "perfection," in the case of Oedipus, a set of qualifications revered for