No matter how Jocasta comforts him with her logical reasoning that Oedipus can never be involved in this crime, Oedipus still insists on searching for proofs and emphasizes the urgency of revealing the truth-"I want that shepherd summoned here. ... No matter how the witness cries out desperately, "Please, in god's name, no more questions" (1463), Oedipus keeps interrogating who the murder is until the bloody spear of truth eventually makes Jocasta commit suicide and agonizes Oedipus to blind himself. ... Before the servant tells the powerful and awful evidence that Oedipus ...

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