There are multiple tragedies within Oedipus, the first is his parents giving him away because of the prophecy. His parents wanted so badly for the prophecy to never come true that they decided to give their only son to a servant to tie up and nail to the ground to die on some random path. Which is horrible in itself, and also begs the question of why they couldn't just kill him then and there if they were that afraid, they would rather him starve to death, which is awful. Oedipus then is taken to adoptive parents and when he finds out his own prophecy he flees the town he grew up in, in fear of marrying his mother and killing his father like the prophecy foretold. He is unaware that those are not his real parents, on the way to Thebes he encounters the king Laius but he doesn't know that it is the king let alone his father. He slaughters his father and the men with him. Oedipus continues on to Thebes where he "saves the people"so they make him King and he marries Laius' wife Jocasta and they have 4 kids. The next tragedy is finding out that Jocasta is his mom, who he has married and had children with that are both his children and his siblings. Oedipus then curses whoever killed the late King that many loved(not knowing it was him), it takes him a very long time to figure this out and then he figured out that Jocasta had figured this out before him and didn't tell him so he summons his sword and runs to his room where he finds that his mother/wife has hung herself. All of this tragedy takes him over, he decides he hates himself so he grabs his mothers brooches and stabs his own eyes repeatedly until they are massacred, he is completely blind, and there is a "storm of blood" running down his face and body. The last tragic thing is that his daughters come in and see him all bloody with his eyes stabbed out, and he states how he worries for them for who will marry children of incest, no one. He asks a couple things of Creon, first to be banished, and second for him to find his daughters some husbands, to which Creon finally tells him it is time for him to stop giving orders.
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