In Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, how do we judge Oedipus? Should he be held responsible for his father's murder and his mother's marriage? For me, Oedipus is a man of great personal madness. He may have been destined to commit these crimes, but he also allowed them to happen through his actions. I believe he is at least partly guilty of the aforementioned crimes. He also enables and accelerates his fate through his uncontrolled anger, his blind denial of facts and his fear of the unknown. Oedipus is controlled, even consumed by anger, when he kills his father and his entire traveling party. It is only after discovering that the man he killed that day was his father that he shows signs of remorse. By not exercising any type of personal reformulation, he allows himself to play the role of pawn for the oracle's prophecy. After hearing the drunk man declare that his parents were not his, his first reaction was to get angry. Rather than question the man and find out what he knows, Oedipus' only recourse is to become angry. Oedipus blindly refuses to accept information that is false....