Identify the use of power creating justice in Oedipus Rex. I'm writing a composition and I have to identify one use of power creating justice in this...

The most distinct
example of power creating justice from this play comes in the murder offather. For as long as
Oedipus possesses power, his actions on the road to Thebes remain justified and acceptable. When
he falls from his position of power, the murder becomes a crime. 

In
retrospect, we see that Oedipus power served as the only definition of justice regarding this
event.

Years ago as Oedipus made his way to Thebes, he encountered another
man on the road. This other man refused to make way for Oedipus and Oedipus refused to make way
for him. Ultimately, Oedipus drove the man off the road, able to use his superior strength to do
so. 

O three paths and hidden groves and
the 
narrow oak coppice at the triple crossroads, (1420) 
which drank my own
blood from my father 
from my own hands...

This
act was not deemed a crime (while the man was still not known to be Oedipus' father). Oedipus
was the stronger man and so had the right to use the road, according to his own
interpretation....