Oedipus Rey: His Story In Thebes

Oedipus Rey: His story in Thebes

Introduction

This story develops in Thebes, King Oedipus comes out and several people are around an old priest. King Oedipus is surprised and asks that it has happened, citizens respond that the city plains the city exhausted. He had already sent his brother -in -law Creon where the oracle to consult how to act in that circumstance.

Developing

At that time Creon arrives to consult the oracle and communicates that the oracle had informed him that the only way to end the plague was banishing the killer of the dead king Layo, King Oedipus surprised again because everyone already knew that there were no cluesof the culprit, King Oedipus gets angry. I blame the fortune teller and insult him, he also asks if he was created his brother -in -law who paid him to say lies the fortune. 

Tiresias tells him that he will soon see darkness, before leaving he tells him that the murderer is there and that he is disguised as a foreigner although he is actually the Tebano by birth and that that person will fall into misfortune, he will discover that he is poor and brother ofHis children will also discover that he is his mother’s son and husband;The fortune teller is silent and leaves.

 Creon is angry, since King Oedipus accuses him as a traitor and does not know the reason why he accuses him, Creon goes to King Oedipus and is angry, since he believes that his brother -in -law wants to seize his power. Creon tells him that he does not have those intentions, but King Oedipus wishes him death, he asks if someone who accompanied Layo had survived and learned that a servant did it.

 But that he was gone when he learned that Oedipus reigned, King Oedipus feels confused and uncomfortable and YocastOnce drunk before he said he was adopted and his parents confirmed it.

conclusion

King Oedipus decided to leave for finding this and the oracle told him that he was going to have misfortunes in his future. Walking that place where Layo died for what Yocasta had told him and in faith where Oedipus killed someone who came ahead of a car they took off the road, but Oedipus got angry and I kill them all, at that time Creon notify himThat will be the new king for the moment and there is Oedipus asks him to expel him from the city. Creon says yes, but let him stay with his daughters.