Oedipus the King: Reason and Passion In the play Oedipus the King, there are two parts of reason and passion. Oedipus acts primarily with reason and passion at different stages of the play. There are several moments in the play where Oedipus acts with reason. The first of these moments occurs when his followers ask him to help save Thebes. He acts rightly when he immediately decides to respond to their requests and find them help. However, it could also be that he decided to do this out of passion. His need for his land to be perfectly normal could have prompted this immediate decision. The reason also appears through the character of Oedipus himself. He has a heroic confidence in his own abilities, and he has good reason to have such confidence, both from his own sense of past achievements and from the very high regard that everyone has for those achievements. He considers himself a great man. He feels that she can achieve anything. The central metaphor of this piece is blindness. For the tragic hero is, in a sense, blind from the start, at least in the sense that he is unaware of the fact that the way he sees his situation may not be true, or may only be an illusion. partial view of the reality of things. Oedipus is not ready to admit that he might be wrong. Why should he do it? He has always been right in the past; No one else in Thebes is acting decisively to confront the crisis, any more than when the city was under threat before. His vision may well have a certain narrowness, and yet, because he sees the world this way, he is also the one who has the most confidence in his own vision and the one who is most ready to act in accordance with what he sees. 'he sees. The way he sees the world is at the very source of what makes him, today and yesterday, a great man. Those around him are counting on this trust to resolve the crisis. It is ironic that the only way to lift the curse of Thebes is to find the murderer of Laius. Oedipus sets out on a powerful journey to find the murderer, which ultimately launches him into a passionate search within himself to find the truth. Because Oedipus will not compromise and will only pursue the murderer.