Events That Occur In Oedipus The King
In Oedipus The King, all characters can share blame for the tragedy that ends up unfolding at the end. Initially, the oracle could arguably have initial blame for setting all events of "Oedipus the King" into action by prophesying what would happen in the first place, but it was not actually her that just made it up. The oracle simply and merely just did her job and tried to warn to what would happen in the future. It was up to the gods what would happen, not to her, she was simply a messenger. The focus on the play is Oedipus, hence why the tale is named after him, who was the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes. Both of them have been married for a long time, but were unable to have any children, so Laius decided to make contact
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Oedipus grew up with the mentality that both Polybus and Merope were his actual parents. He had seemed to have a fairly happy life, until one day at a gathering, Oedipus was told by a drunk that he was a bastard. Bastard back then meant that he had no blood relation to the only family he ever knew in his life. Oedipus was very shocked upon hearing this and asked his now questionable parents with what he had heard from the drunkard, but they assured him it was all drunken slur and lies that he had heard. Despite his parents "reassurance", hearing that still bugged him so he decided to call onto the oracle, who was actually the very same oracle that his birth parents had originally called upon. Even though what the drunkard said was actually true, Oedipus could take blame for what will come into his horrible future if he had only just believed his parents when they said that they were in fact his real parents. Though, in doing so his adopted parents would force Oedipus to be living a life of lies, but he would be happy, it would have not been in vain, and no one would get hurt. The oracle then told him the very same thing she told his actual birth parents, Laius and Jocasta that his inevitable fate was he was destined to murder his father and marry his mother and have children with her. Even though prophecies from an oracle are inevitable, he decided to try and avoid such a horrible fate like that, so he left and decided it was best to never return
Oedipus grew up with the mentality that both Polybus and Merope were his actual parents. He had seemed to have a fairly happy life, until one day at a gathering, Oedipus was told by a drunk that he was a bastard. Bastard back then meant that he had no blood relation to the only family he ever knew in his life. Oedipus was very shocked upon hearing this and asked his now questionable parents with what he had heard from the drunkard, but they assured him it was all drunken slur and lies that he had heard. Despite his parents "reassurance", hearing that still bugged him so he decided to call onto the oracle, who was actually the very same oracle that his birth parents had originally called upon. Even though what the drunkard said was actually true, Oedipus could take blame for what will come into his horrible future if he had only just believed his parents when they said that they were in fact his real parents. Though, in doing so his adopted parents would force Oedipus to be living a life of lies, but he would be happy, it would have not been in vain, and no one would get hurt. The oracle then told him the very same thing she told his actual birth parents, Laius and Jocasta that his inevitable fate was he was destined to murder his father and marry his mother and have children with her. Even though prophecies from an oracle are inevitable, he decided to try and avoid such a horrible fate like that, so he left and decided it was best to never return