Like Oedipus, Jocasta wrongfully accuses Tiresias of treason and stereotypes that all prophets are liars. ... Jocasta continues to love Oedipus more as a husband than a son. Also, Jocasta confuses conclusions and evidence. ... Jocasta simply refuses the truth. ... To escape the truth, Jocasta kills herself, and remains blind forever. ...
To their dismay, the oracle prophesies that Oedipus will grow up to kill Laius and marry Jocasta. Thus, Laius and Jocasta decide to have a servant leave their child on a mountain to be killed by animals. ... Jocasta is the first to realize that she and Laius are responsible for their own demise. Shameful, embarrassed, and horrified, she tries to hide the truth from Oedipus: JOCASTA: Doomed man! ... JOCASTA: O lost and damned! ...
It is the foolishness and stubbornness of many of the characters such as Oedipus and Jocasta that led to the downfall of Oedipus and the shame and destruction of his House. Jocasta and Laius were told of a prophecy from the Delphi. ... Dumbfounded, Laius told Jocasta to take the infant, Oedipus, to the top of Mount Cithaeron to die from the elements. ... By doing this, he was elected King of Thebes and married the widow of Laius, Jocasta. ... Jocasta, Laius, the Oracles, the shepherd who served Jocasta and Laius, and the actions Oedipus took to avoid a prophecy actually led to it coming true...
To destroy Oedipus, the gods granted the power of prophecy to oracles that delivered these prophecies to Laius and Jocasta. ... It is obvious that the gods were planning to this fate before Oedipus' birth, because through the oracle, they announced the two prophecies while Jocasta was pregnant. ... The purpose of this was to make both parents agree to kill their child, for Laius didn't want to be murdered by his son, and Jocasta didn't want to marry her son. ... On the other hand, if Laius and Jocasta hadn't known about the prophecies, they would've kept the child, and...
In the beginning, Laius and Jocasta, Oedipus's parents, had a chance to prevent the realization of their son's "destiny", but their actions did otherwise. ... What Laius and Jocasta could have done to wipe out any chance of him killing Laius and marrying Jocasta was to kill Oedipus themselves. ...
Jocasta and Laius attempted to challenge this prophecy by exposing their son on a mountain, but their attempt was in vain. ... For fifteen years Oedipus lived happily with Jocasta and had several children. ... Had he actually known the truth about Jocasta and Laius he would have fallen into misery. ... His impulsiveness causes him to ignore the warnings he gets from Tiresias and Jocasta as we can see when she says " In God's name - if you want to live, this Must not go on ." ...
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. ...
In the plays "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone", there is one reoccurring theme, which is represented in numerous ways. This theme is justice, but whether to follow the laws of man or the laws of the gods is a different matter. Apollo is the god of truth, light, medicine, and intelligence, being mentioned...
