Jocasta opens up everything for him to know about the prophecy. She tells him that a prophet had once said that Laius would be killed by his child.
The prophecy continues to say that his own child would take Jocasta, his wife and together they will get children. Jocasta then narrates to Oedipus how king Laius was arrested on the way by unknown men and killed together with his servants.
On hearing this, king Oedipus remembers how he met a man on the way, the man threatened him and he killed him together with his servants but one servant escaped. The survivor was a shepherd and he is the only person who could tell who really killed king Laius.
As they talk, the shepherd enters the room and says that it is Oedipus who killed the king. He also narrates about a child who was born and left on the road to die by his parents because they feared a prophecy which had been prophesied on them and they did not want the child to fulfil the prophecy. Due to this, they decided to throw him away but was rescued and adopted by the Polybus of Corinth and Merope who nursed him until he became big enough. He ends up plainly humiliated of this discovery notwithstanding all the safety measures that were taken by King Laius and his wife to avoid the prophecy being fulfilled and at last its fulfillment comes true.
This shows how fate and free will cannot be escaped no matter how much someone tries, if it was made to happen, it just happens. On the peak of the play, Oedipus has been believing to be the son of Polybus of Corinth and Merope and not the son of King Laius, this is according to what he told Jocasta. Oedipus was disgusted by hearing this and he decided to consult the priest of Apollo who explained to him about the prophecy and who he was.
He then decided to move from Corinth and Merope and on the way where the three roads meet, there came a man who offended him. He decided to kill the man and all his servants but one servant who was a shepherd was left. This shepherd is the one who went to give a testimony on what had happened and how King Laius died and who was behind all this. After the incident, Oedipus went to Thebes and became the new king.
The determination and the falling activity are well put together in this play especially in the last part. Jocasta and King Oedipus come to know that the prophecy which they said will never happen has been fulfilled in them, they both become worried and go into a frenzy. He summons Tiresias, the famous seer, to tell what he knows.
At first Tiresias refuses to speak, but when pressed, he tells Oedipus that the murderer he seeks is Oedipus himself. The king and the chorus refuse to believe the prophet, and Oedipus accuses Tiresias and Creon of plots and corruption. Jocasta intervenes and tells Oedipus not to worry. Jocasta realizes the truth—that Oedipus is her son as well as her husband—and tells Oedipus to stop the interrogations.
One day, Oedipus goes to the Oracle of Delphi to find out who his real parents are. Pucci said that the Greek Oedipus has four fathers: Laius, his biological father; Polybus, his adoptive father; the king as a father to his citizens; and Apollo, as the divine Father. It follows the story of King Oedipus of Thebes as he discovers that he has unwittingly killed his own father, Laius, and married his own mother, Jocasta.
As a young man, Oedipus learned of his fate to kill his father and marry his mother. If we accept the Aristotelian views of good and bad, as expressed in The Good, Oedipus was indeed a good man by saving the city, ruling justly and searching for the truth although his anger could be seen as a flaw. Oedipus shows both traits of a hero and that of a villain.
To the people of Thebes, he begins the play as a hero, although his underlying crimes and the decisions he made to do so cause him to behave like a villain. One example of dramatic irony is when Oedipus is looking for the killer of the king Laius-his father. The irony here is that he is looking for himself because he is the murder of his father.
Oedipus knows that he killed someone, but what he does not know is that it was Laius, the one he murder. The significance of the closing scene of Oedipus Rex is that it shows the title character regaining his heroic status. Just after Oedipus blinds himself after the revelation of a shocking truth, he acts heroically by insisting on his own death or banishment as punishment for having killed his father.
Oedipus does not have a free will or personal choices for his future or fate. By doing these, he also fulfills the prophecy as if it draws automatically at him, his fate. Jocasta says that Oedipus is doomed and she runs from his sight because she has figured out the truth. When the Shepherd finally reveals the truth, Oedipus shouts that the light will soon go from him now that the deeds of his cursed life have been revealed.
Rather than condense the action, an episodic theatrical play expands the action broadly. Alternatively, climactic structure involves a condensed narrative that is focused on fewer characters over a smaller number of locations. Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. What type of plot is Oedipus Rex?
Category: music and audio gospel music. Plot Construction in Oedipus Rex. The plot of Oedipus Rex is so remarkable that the drama has been called one of the most perfect dramas in terms of its plot construction. That is why Aristotle took it as a model of tragedy. The plot of this play is precise, and it is thematically compact. What is the basic plot of Oedipus?
What does Oedipus Rex teach us? Who tells Oedipus that he will kill his father and marry his mother? How did Oedipus kill his father? How is Oedipus a tragic hero? What is the point of attack in Oedipus Rex?
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