... of both protagonists to come about. Neither character trusted the right people. Oedipus should have trusted what he was told as a teenager from the oracle- that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, he should not have killed a travelling man on a road after he just heard this, and he should have not married a significantly older woman. He did, however ... , because he believed he was the real son of the parents who had adopted him (trusting that ... they would tell him the truth), and because, though he believed the oracle enough to run away, he didn't trust i...

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... 's first name, obviously, derives from Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles' famous play. According to the legend, Oedipus' parents found out that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, they arranged for the child's death. However, he was rescued and grew to adulthood in another kingdom. As an adult, Oedipus meets a strange man on the road and kills him, never knowing that ... he is actually his father. When he reaches the next kingdom, he learns that the king has mysteriously died, and Oedipus himself becomes king, marrying ... the former king's wife, who of course ...

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... , she hung. He [Oedipus] too has seen her - with a moaning cry looses the hanging trap, and on the ground has laid her. Then -oh, sight most terrible-He snatched the golden brooches from the Queen lifted them and struck. Deep to the very founds of light. Oedipus's grief over the completion of the prophecy and the suicide of Jocosta is so deep that she plunks out his eye s that ... Drove steeds and a car, even as you have Said. The leader and the old man too were Fain to thrust me rudely from the road. But I When one led the horses jostled me, Struck him in anger. This the old man saw, An...

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... would have it, along the road, Oedipus meets Laios and kills him in a fit of rage. Thus, he has unwittingly fulfilled the first half of the prophecy. Traveling on to Thebes, Oedipus saves the city from the drought by solving the riddle of the sphinx. Declared the new King, he marries the widowed Queen (Locaste) - his mother. Thus, he has unknowingly fulfilled the second half of the prophecy. For the next two decades, Oedipus ... rules successfully in Thebes until Hera sends a second drought to plague the city. After sending his ... ...

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