Using the powers of your observation as a discerning reader, come up with a character sketch (that is, a description of his qualities, with two or three examples to back them up) of Oedipus.
Oedipus' strengths include his decisiveness and intuition. He is able to see situations from all sides and intuitively find solutions.
His weaknesses are pride, his impulsiveness, and his quick temper.
"The trusty Creon, my familiar friend,
Hath lain in wait to oust me and suborned
This mountebank, this juggling charlatan,
This tricksy beggar-priest, for gain alone
Keen-eyed, but in his proper art stone-blind.
Say, sirrah, hast thou ever proved thyself
A prophet? When the riddling Sphinx was here
Why hadst thou no deliverance for this folk?
And yet the riddle was not to be solved
By guess-work but required the prophet's art
Wherein thou wast found lacking; neither birds nor sign from heaven helped thee, but I came.
The simple Oedipus; I stopped her mouth.
Oedipus Rex
