With time slowly passing by, and the plague eating away at the peoples' hope, Oedipus sends Kreon to Delphi in search for a remedy. Unknowingly, Oedipus has no idea that the awful plague was brought about by him. Fate is the inevitable order that Oedipus forgets to realize. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' traits demonstrate how his inevitable fate would draw closer to him toward the end of the story.
             Oedipus' character traits are seen in the beginning, for example, when Teiresias tested Oedipus' patience with the information he was holding; "You'd try a stones patience! Out with it." This impatient accusing of Teiresias proved to be bad, especially since Teiresias later told the ending of the story. If Oedipus would have been more patient and waited, he might have not been as mad about the future. During his speedy downfall, he said that he was " a simple man, who knows nothing", but really knowing more than he realizes. His fall from his high status was not by accident, but by himself. He is to blame for his misfortune.
             Another trait that took his position of high authority was his anger, for example when he said "I struck him in my rage.". Later, this person whom he angrily and quickly killed, was revealed to be Laios, Oedipus' father. Oedipus' anger also quickly shifted his judgment of Teiresias. "We are in your (Teiresias) hands. There is no fairer duty", Oedipus' respect for Teiresias quickly changed as Teiresias refused to tell of what was the trouble's cause. Oedipus began claiming that Kreon had brought a dishonest fortuneteller to mean that Teiresias was though of as a traitor in Oedipus' thinking. Oedipus' anger throughout the beginning of the play only hurt himself.
             The final trait that was Oedipus' greatest enemy throughout the entirety of the play was his own truthfulness, for example, when he said, ""I think that I
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