Oedipus

Tragically, Oedipus was just what he declared himself, “I am the child of parents who should never have been mine (779. Oedipus is the missing link in the chain of events, which will erase all that he knows about who he is, complete the prophecy, and ultimately save his people. Oedipus, like the reader, is swayed to perceive the killer may have acted with company and for no reason would Oedipus be in the line up of possible slayers. The beloved King killed his father, slept with his mother, and fathered his sisters in fulfillment of the prophecy. After Oedipus verbally attacks Teiresias, he modestly speaks out and says to Oedipus, “then obey your own words, obey the curse everyone heard break from your own lips: Never speak to these men of Thebes, You, its you. Oedipus is the origin of the plague; Oedipus is the sought after murderer; and Oedipus is the only savior to his people. The plague is the crucial piece in the realization of a prophecy. e with many missing pieces to save his people from the plague. The Chorus reiterates Oedipus is human and his suffering due do his mistakes prove he is not the “God” some loyal Thebans have hailed him as. The chorus seems to detail the realization of the coming prophecy when it entails, “is it the sudden doom of grief or the old curse the darkness looming in the turning season (749. The works of the two Kings Laios and Polybos were successful in attempting to eliminate the fate of the dreadful prophecy but not in the purging of the actual prophecy for it came back in the fury of the plague. )” “Happiness and peace, they were not yours unless at death you can look back on your life and say I lived, I did not suffer (791. The plague surfaces the man in Oedipus.