Oedipus, The King Summary :: Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

Sophocles Oedipus, the King is a ample representation of Greek tragedy and of the humane experience. Within it, he explores the intricacies of human thinking and communication along with its ability to change as more information and knowledge is acquired. His primary focus as the story begins and progresses is the harvesting of Oedipus from an unintelligible and unenlightened mentality to its antithesis.Because the story was one familiar to more or less of its viewers in its time, there are certain things that they are pass judgment to already know. Among them is the background to the legend. Most generally it was that it was prophesied that Laios and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, would sacrifice birth to a child who would grow up to murder his flummox and marry his mother. And, fearing the dreadful prophecy, that the parents nailed their first sons feet together (thus the name Oedipus, which means swollen-foot) and left him to die on a lonely moun-tainside outside the city. Moreover, that he was open by a wandering shepherd who took him to the nearby city of Corinth where he was adopted by the childless King Polybos and Queen Merope who raised him as a son and prince in the royal househ nonagenarian. Then, when he was a puppylike adult and first heard the prophecy, that he assumed that it applied to Polybos and Merope, the tho parents he had ever known, and had fled Corinth and wandered around Greece where he met a group of travelers and killed an old man who, unknown to him, was his real father, King Laios. Then, when he arrived at Thebes, he met the Sphinx, a monster who guarded the gates of the city and correctly answered its sort and was rewarded with the title of king of Thebes and was given the hand of the re-cently widowed queen, Jocasta. The true standoff in his life begins here because he has four children with her, An-tigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices and fulfills the prophecy.The story begins by and by some time after Oed ipus has taken the throne and when there is a mysterious enkindle that sweeps the city. Here, he learns from the priest that the sacred oracle says that the plague will be re-moved only when Laios murderer is discovered. Consequently, he sends Creon, his brother-in-law, to Delphi to consult the oracles and reckon out the identity of the murderer.