Hi there - This last scene is a dramatic, gory climax of a tragic play. While the reader or viewer has known the fatal information all along - that Oedipus has indeed killed his father (Laius) and married his mother (Jocasta) - Oedpius and Laius have only just realized the full extent of the horrible fate that they have acted out. Despite their many attempts to escape it - Oedipus running away from Corinth, Jocasta having given her infant son to a shepherd to kill - they inevitably fell into the pattern that fate designed. And now they have finally seen the
