Jocasta eventually tells him about the son her and Laius made together that they had made in order to get back at the Gods, as Laius has committed hubris against the oracle of Hubris. The Gods had told him that his fate would be that his son would come and kill him, so that is when they abandoned the child in the woods, leaving it there to die, hoping that the baby would not come and kill Laius. This baby being Oedipus, was found a shepherd in the woods, that took him to the king of Corinth, Polybus and his wife, Merope. This is who Oedipus had believed were his parents were from when he was born, until at his birthday party, someone came up to him and told him, drunkenly, that he was not the son of Polybus. “There was a dinner and at it a man, a drunken man, accused me in his drink, of being a bastard (Sophocles 1584).” This was when Oedipus first had his identity …show more content…
He confronted his “parents” about the news he had received. “Next day I went and taxed my parents with it; they took the insult very ill from him, the drunken fellow who had uttered it (Sophocles 1584).” Oedipus had not believed the man, as his parents made him think the man was not right at all, but he could not help but wonder. This was when he wondered off to find the Oracle to determine his prophecy. There was when he found out that, in fact, that he would murder his father and marry his mother. He decided not return back to Corinth, because he was too angry to confront his parents about them lying to him. He, therefore, decided to go find Thebes. He encountered a three path crossway, where he encountered King Laius, even though he did not know the man, or the fact he was his father. He then murders King Laius at this path on his way to find his