King Oedipus

The Story starts out is when Oedipus notices people outside his palace and asks what is going on. The townspeople tell him that everyone is dying from a plague. Oedipus says that he will be sure to take care of this plague and sends for an oracle. Creon returns with news to tell everyone, he tells them first about Laius, the former king, was killed by thieves. Next Oedipus meets the blind prophet Tiresias, Tiresias tells Oedipus that he is the cause of the plague and accuses him of killing Laius. Oedipus is furious of hearing this and asks to hear about his parentage, she tells him that he married his mother and killed his father. Oedipus than goes to talk to his wife Jocasta, she tells him that everything is false what Tiresias has told him and that it'll be alright. He asks Jocasta about the murder in detail and it reminded him of an incident where he killed a man at an intersection similar to Laius. He tells her that he could be the killer and when he grew up in as a child in Corinth, a man told him that he wasn't the son of the king. He than went home later on killing a couple of people at a cross road before going to Thebes. Later on a messenger tells Oedipus that his father has died and that he will become the new king. Jocasta is excited but Oedipus is worried because the oracle said he would sleep with his mother, but the messenger said not to worry because they weren't his real parents. This worries Oedipus, so he sets out on a journey to find out who he really is. He than locates a Shepard and questions him, the Shepard than tells him about a baby he saw with his ankles locked together, he felt bad so he brought the baby to Corinth. Jocasta realizes what has happened and tells Oedipus to stop looking for his real parents but he refuses to. Oedipus won't listen to her and he sends someone for the shepheard that Laius first gave the baby to. At first the Shepard refuses to tell him where the baby was from but that he tells Oedipus that his job was to kill the baby because an oracle told him that the babby would grow up and kill his father and sleep with his mother. The messenger tells everyone what has happened, Jocasta locked herself in her room and hung herself and Oedipus begs to be banned from the Thebes. Creon then is asked to take over and take care of Oedipus's daughters.