The two
main ideas of the play are
these: the first is that that we are blinded by our own pride. This
is called
, and it is what Oedipus suffers from. The second idea is that we can't escape
our
destiny.
It is foretold that Oedipus will murder his
father and marry his
mother. To try to prevent this fate, his parents place
the infant outside to be exposed and die.
He is, however, saved and raised in
Corinth. He has no idea who his real parents are. He thinks
they are the
people who raised him. Therefore, when he hears the prophecy, he flees Corinth
in
horror.
On the road, he meets and kills his father,
not knowing who he is.
When he arrives at Thebes, he solves the riddle of the
sphinx and becomes king. He marries his
mother Jocasta, not knowing she is
his mother. When a plague comes to Thebes because of his
sinskilling his
father and marrying his motherOedipus has too much hubris to imagine he could
be
the cause of the plague. He has to accept finally that he has not
been...
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