ge and does not, apparently, give the murders a second thought until nearly twenty years have passed. As fate would have it, the man in the chariot was King Laius and Oedipus had fulfilled one part of the terrible prophecy. Instead of regarding Oedipus as a raging murderer as a result of the killings at the crossroad, the audience tends to take a fatalistic view of the incident. Oedipus is tragic because he cannot escape his fate, so the murders were going to happen and there was nothing he could do about it. Such a moral transgression is only part of the puzzle for Oedipus in figuring out his own story instead of a source of guilt or remorse.
             Upon arriving in Thebes, Oedipus solves the riddle of th
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