Arts & Culture
The Use of Dramatic Irony in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Quick fact
The word 'Oedipus' in Greek means 'swollen foot,' linking his name to his fate from the very beginning—and no one in the play notices.
Why this is interesting
You know more than the hero—and the closer he gets to the truth, the more you want to look away. That's dramatic irony in action.