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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