Differences Between Oedipus And Jocasta

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Oedipus and Jocasta had four children all had tragic deaths, some of them honorable deaths while others had disgraceful deaths and the differences will be listed below.
Firstly, Polyneices is one of the mistaken characters, people say that he is the traitor and the disgraceful one but he is actually honorable because when it was Polyneices’ turn to control Thebes and assume the throne Eteocles his brother betrayed him and refused to hand the throne over which ended up in a war between Thebes and the 7 other countries that were aligned with Polyneices.
Secondly, We have Antigone an honorable woman who fought for what’s right which shows that Antigone is a brave woman and isn’t to be mistaken as a girl who just loves treason, she also tried

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