Oedipus The King Pages 162-165 [10/03/2011]

Today I read pages 162-165 of Oedipus The King. Jocasta, Oedipus's wife, told Oedipus the story of King Laius's death. Oedipus found out that Laius was cut down where three roads meet. It was a place called Phocis. It had two branching roads, one from Daulia, and one from Delphi, they all came together and formed a crossroads. As he learnt more about the previous king, Oedipus starts getting worried. He even said,

"I think I've just called down a dreadful curse

upon myself-I simply didn't know!"

Then Oedipus told Jocasta about the time he went to Delphi with his parents not knowing. Apollo denied Oedipus the facts that he had came for. Apollo started to cry in pain, terror, and disaster,

"You are fated to couple with your mother, you will bring

a breed of children into the light no man can bear to see-

you will kill your own father, the one who gave you life!"

After hearing that, Oedipus ran away, far away to a place where these things wouldn't happen. Thats when he reached the same crossroads where King Laius was murdered. As Oedipus walked through the crossroads he saw a man that looked just like Jocasta's description of King Laius. This stranger and another old man were about to thrust Oedipus off the road and that when he strikes this man who may have been King Laius. At the end of the story he tells Jocasta,

"I killed them all-every mother's son!"

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