Laius

about Laius’ death, Tiresias admits that he knows who the murderer is, but advises Oedipus to stop seeking the truth behind Laius’ death. However, Oedipus goes against Tiresias’ advice and insists that he be told who killed Laius. Finding out the truth ultimately changes his life for the worst since he now lives with the grief of killing his father and marrying his mother. But when Oedipus makes the decision to make Tiresias to speak the truth, he is motivated by his desire to find how Laius,…

struck Oedipus's city, Thebes. After Creon, Oedipus right-hand man, comes back from visiting Apollo, Oedipus learns what must happen for his city to be saved from the plague. He must find the killer of Laius, the former king of Thebes, who is living in the city. Oedipus, desperate for answers about Laius’ killer calls on Tiresias, the blind prophet. While talking to Tiresias, Oedipus becomes upset and then angry after Tiresias refuses, to tell the truth.…

“She passed inside the hall in passion’s grip,/tearing her hair with all her fingers’ might,/and went directly toward her marriage bed./Arriving there, she slammed the bedroom doors/and called on Laius, dead for years, a corpse./She recollected times he ‘planted seeds by which he perished,’ leaving her ‘to bear his offspring misbegotten progeny.’/She cursed her bed: she bore ‘a husband by her husband there and children by her child’ (1239-1250).…

In the play, “Oedipus Tyrannus” the author, Sophocles, illustrated how fate and free will could determine one 's destiny. Sophocles revolve the core of this play around fate and free will. Sophocles is a well-known tragedian who wrote more than one-hundred Greek dramas for Greek festivals. His plays have entertained countless people in Greek carnivals while made his intended audience to become acquainted with Athens’ government, social forms as well as its’ religion. In this play the main…

reason why Oedipus is a tragic hero is his remarkable birth. Oedipus is the son of Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes. Still as a baby, Laius was revealed a prophecy, which revealed that he will be killed by Oedipus and he will marry his wife. In order to prevent the prophecy from being true, Laius pierces Oedipus’s ankles and ties them together. He was then given to a shepherd, who is “belonged to Laius” (1060), to be taken to Cithaeron. Then he was given to a messenger, and then…

that he killed Laius; Tiresias the prophet is physically blind; Jocasta is blind in wanting nothing but the best for her child. Through these three main characters they are not only showing that blindness does not just occur in sight but also in hearing and speaking as well. Oedipus thinks that he is one of the only people who is doing something good for the town of Thebes because he has solved the riddle of the Sphinx; instead he is destroying the town of Thebes apart by killing Laius and…

to find and punish the one who murdered Laius. The instant that Oedipus heard this news, he stared looking for clues that could lead him to killer of Laius. “As for the murderer himself, I call down a…

of his past. Oedipus has set out to figure his fate and comprehend the murder of Laius. Laius was the ruler of Thebes before the king, present time, (Oedipus). The story/play holds that Laius was killed during his time or journey by robbers that had attacked well not technically attacked but, all the same stuff. The Gods (Delphi) speak saying that if nothing is done to find and capture the murderer of Laius, that the city of Thebes will suffer continuously. Resolving back to Oedipus…

by his action to find out who murdered Laius to lift the curse from his city. Before Oedipus knew why the city was cursed Creon was sent by Oedipus to Pythian orachle, Apollo’s shrine at Delphi to figure out what the gods need in order to life the curse from the city. When Creon returned he explained to Oedipus that he must purge for the cause of Laius murder. Laius was the leader of Thebes before Oedipus came to power by solving the riddle of the Sphinx. Laius died and the reason or how was…

as because Oedipus is not aware that it was him that actually murdered Laius and hence thinks Teiresias is not telling the truth. Oedipus states: ¨Am i to bear this from him?--Damnation take you! Out of this place! Out of my sight!” Sophocles, Sc 1, Li 418-419. This angers Oedipus as Oedipus firmly believes that he did not murder Laius. This causes Oedipus to think that the prophet may be using the fact that he killed Laius as a way for Creon to inherit the crown. Oedipus feels that Creon…