... displays three elements of the cathartic moment very well. Oedipus" highest point of misery occurs after he realises that the prophecy had come true and he discovers that his wife, Jocasta has hung herself in her bridal-room after she finds out that Oedipus was her son. A messenger tells the chorus of the incident in the following quote: She died by ... , and left her a son to get her fresh children, shamefully. So wept she for her bridal's double woe husband of husband got, and child of child . And there we saw Jocasta. By a noose of swaying cords, caught and entwined, she hung. He [Oed...

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