How can hubris be considered Oedipus' tragic flaw in 'Oedipus Rex'?

Answer 1

That he believes himself capable of outrunning fate and outwitting the gods is the way in which hubris can be considered Oedipus' tragic flaw in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, hubris describes an exaggerated sense of self, arrogance, pride. Oedipus exhibits an exaggerated sense of self in consulting the Delphic oracle and running away from home without talking first to his presumed parents, Corinthian monarchs Polybus and Merope. He expresses arrogance in killing five people at the Delphi-Daulia crossroads without immediately thereafter carrying out mandatory cleansing rituals. He manifests pride in his own inattentiveness to detail in killing a man old enough to be his father and marrying a woman old enough to be his mother.