Jocasta was a woman with a very unfortunate role in the story of Oedipus the King. All the tragic events accused her. When she married Laius she knew about the prophecy that condemn them if they had a child but didn’t truly believed. If she had believed in the cursed she could had run away from Laius or not to have a baby at all, she would have been responsible towards her action. Even though a part of her did believed in the prophecy when she went to Mount Cithaeron and left Oedipus to die. By giving her baby away and assuming that he died, Jocasta simply complicated the things because of her actions, and the prophecy became true. Jocasta appeared to be ignorant toward her sins, how couldn’t she relate the swollen ankles of Oedipus if she
