Jocasta In Oedipus Tyrannous

Oedipus Tyrannous is a very tragic story that impacts the lives of many people within the story. Jocasta, which is Oedipus mother played a huge role on how the end of the story came to unfold. The purpose of the paper is to see Jocasta’s point of view within the story in a creative context and understand why she did what she did. Jocasta was born in Corinth but when she became a young woman she moved to the city of Thebes. She came from a very poor and humble family, but Jocasta was extremely beautiful which was something that helped changed her life forever in the future. One day, Laius the king of the city of Thebes was doing a town hall to the public in the city square to hear what kind of problems the citizens of Thebes are having. While the king was doing the town hall that’s when Laius noticed this beautiful woman that stand out from all others, her name was Jocasta. During that time the Laius’s wife had just passed away due to some medical problems. Laius was in the search of a new wife but he was not much in a hurry since he was still grieving his old wife. As soon as the town hall was …show more content…
The specific instructions that Jocasta gave to the humble family when she gave her baby to them was to take the baby to Pluribus and have him adopt him. She knew that would be the best because baby Oedipus would be very well taken care under the wings of Pluribus. Laius never found out about this, Laius thought that the baby was dead, therefore he never had any fear about being killed by his own son. Even though the story of Oedipus Tyranus portrays Jocasta as a bad mother for giving her baby away, this new creative perspective can hopefully explain better why she did what she did and eventually she did it all for the best interests of her son, which is what good mothers