Oedipus Rex By Sophocles

Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles, was a play set in Thebes, ancient Greece, all in all a tragedy. A murder of a king had happened long ago at a crossroad, and a plague had been casted on the people of Thebes. Apollo informed Creon that if the murderer is either killed, or sent into exile, that the curse will be lifted. It turns out to be his own son that had a terrible fate, Oedipus. Along with the misfortune of killing his father, he also wedded his mother and gave her children. He was a son and a husband to his mother, a brother and a father to his children. Oedipus had a lot of emotional struggles throughout the play, finding out that his parents weren’t really his parents, finding out that his wife is also his real mother, and killing his own father. Long ago at a banquet, Oedipus was told that he wasn’t his parent’s son. He questioned his parents firmly, and were angry at the accusations. Then years after that incident, Tiresias, the blind prophet, brought up the fact that he was not really the son of the people he had originally thought. He did not accept this information well, ignoring it …show more content…
He had spent so much time running from his adoptive home, trying to avoid killing his father and then bedding his mother, but it was fate. His fate was splayed out in front of him, even though he did not recognize it. When he had found his wife/mother, he had removed her brooches, the long golden pins from the queen’s robes, and then dug them into the sockets of his eyes. “ ‘You, you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, bling to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness ̶ blind!’ ” (237, 1405-1409, Sophocles). In the end, he had fulfilled the prophecy that was given to him, without knowledge, and when he found out, he had went insane in