After speaking with the messenger from Corinth who was an actual witness to his being given away by Jocasta, he still must hear it from the mouth of the shepherd who found him as a baby. Despite Jocasta having already pieced together the tragic events which had occurred Oedipus sticks to his ideas to the very end, his pride guiding his path. ...

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In the play "Oedipus the King" Sophocles depicts Oedipus' inevitable downfall, which represents man's struggle between free will and fate. In an attempt to use the audience's knowledge to his advantage, Sophocles opens the play seventeen years after Oedipus murders his father, Laius and marries his ...

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