Conventional Shit - Done

Oedipus went to the sphinx to solve its riddle and he answered it correctly, the reward was the kingship of Thebes and marrying the Queen (his mother), fulfilling the phropecy. Oedipus became the new ruler of Thebes and had 4 children’s with the Queen. Oedipus faces problem, a plague was consuming his kingdom and people believes as a curse of the God’s because of the old kings death. Oedipus consulted to an oracle hoping to tell him the truth, but the oracle told him that he was to blame, that he kills his own real father and marry her mother.

As a young man, Oedipus heard a rumor that he was not the biological son of king Polybus and Merope, but he just ignored it. The oracle has a phropecy to Oedipus that he is to kill his father and mate his mother. Oedipus decided to leave Corinth, hoping to prevent the phropecy from happening. On his way, he had killed a man who happened to be his biological father due to an argument on the road, fulfilling some of the phropecy.

The king of Thebes Laius and Queen Jocasta had given a birth to a son, who soon to replace his father on the throne. A prophecy had been told that king Laius is to perish by the hand of his own son, so the king ordered to exile his son and leave him to his death in the Jungle. The baby (Oedipus) was not killed but instead the messenger cast him away to Corinth of which he was adopted by King Polybus and Merope. The baby was named Oedipus and now a young man believing that his parents were the ruler Corinth.

A messenger from Corinth, told Oedipus that their king had died, whom he still believes to be his father, but the messenger also informed him that he was just adopted by the king. Oedipus did not believed, until another messenger informed him that his wife Jocasta (his real mother) hanged herself. Oedipus was confused and could no longer handle the truth, he blinded himself.

Creon, Jocasta’s brother was now the new king of Thebes. Oedipus decided to exile himself, away from Thebes and to everybody. He entrusted his to children with his mother to Creon. Oedipus, away from everyone had died unhappy.