This is a tragic drama with lots of dramatic irony, which allows the audience or the other characters to know more than the protagonists do about their own circumstances. For instance, Oedipus seeks the murderer of Laios but in his case he is seeking himself as the murderer. Teiresias, the blind seer knows the fact that Oedipus is the murderer of King Laios and tries to convince Oedipus should not bother to ask. The oracle at Delphi says that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother but never tells Oedipus how to end this tragedy. As the result, Oedipus eventually step by step fulfills his terrible prophecy without realizing.

told fate. He went to Thebes. On his way to Thebes, Oedipus met an old man accompanied by several servants at the three crossroads. The old man was Laios, who was Oedipus’s father, on his way to Delphi. Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. Laios attacked Oedipus. As a result, Oedipus killed them all, excepted on of the servant.

After all the proofs from the messenger, the shepherd and the herdsman, it proved Oedipus was the child of King Laios and Queen Iocaste. The falling action begins with Iocaste’s death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. Oedipus then took her golden broach and gouged his eyes because he could no longer bear to see his shame. The resolution of the drama was the exile of Oedipus.

After Oedipus finished killing his own father, he continued on his journey to the city of Thebes. When he arrived at Thebes there was a widespread plague in the city. In order to free the city of this plague you had to solve the riddle that came with it, the riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus was clever enough to solve the riddle, which in turn cured the city of the plague. The city, which was recently missing a king, made Oedipus the king since he saved them from the plague. As it was accustomed, Oedipus married the

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