The Oracle is all like, "I've got good news and bad news. For some ridiculous reason, Laius decides to keep sleeping with his wife despite this prophecy. Eventually, Jocasta gets pregnant and gives birth to a bouncing baby boy. To try and avoid the prophecy, Lauis pierces the baby's ankles, binding them together with a pin, and abandons his son on the slopes of Mt.
Father of the year, right? Later, a kindly shepherd comes by and finds the baby boy. He takes the child to Polybus and Merope, the King and Queen of Corinth, who don't have any children. The royal couple is all about the cute kid, and they decide to raise him as their own. They name him Oedipus , which means "swollen ankles," because of the way the pins in his ankles have swollen them. In some alternate versions, Laius puts Oedipus in a chest and throws him into the sea.
Polybus finds him and names him Oedipias, which means "child of the swollen sea. Just sayin'. Oedipus grows up thinking that Polybus and Merope are his legit parents. One day, though, some random drunk dude at a feast calls out that the royal couple aren't his real parents. Oedipus doesn't quite buy it, though, so he trucks it over to the Oracle of Delphi to get the truth of the whole thing.
As usual, the Oracle's prophecy is a little bit of a downer The priestess totally dodges the question of who Oedipus's real parents are, but does let him know that he's destined to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus is totally freaked out by the prophecy. Understandable, right? The prince decides to never return home to Corinth, fearing that he'll kill Polybus and sleep with Merope, whom he assumes must be his real parents.
The Oracle didn't bother to tell him otherwise, so they must be, right? Oedipus goes out a-wanderin' and comes upon a place where three roads meet. A few dudes roll up to the crossroads and tell Oedipus to get out of the way. Oedipus is all like, "No way, you get out the way. Our hero pulls out some major ninja moves and manages to kill the guys with only one survivor running away.
Man, it looks like the ancient Greeks had major road rage. Oedipus walks off thinking he's a totally awesome warrior, but what he doesn't know is that one of the guys he's just killed is his real father, Laius, the king of Thebes.
Eventually, Oedipus makes his way to Thebes, which is having some serious trouble. Their king is nowhere to be found and a Sphinx has taken up residence outside of the city. The Sphinx is a crazy monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lioness, the wings of a bird, and some say a snake for a tail. Her favorite activity is sitting on a big rock outside of Thebes and asking everybody a riddle.
When people get it wrong and they always do she strangles them, or eats them, or some other such awful thing. Creon has offered the hand of the queen and the throne of Thebes to any man who can get rid of the Sphinx.
When Oedipus hears this, he's like, "Awesome. I am totally going to rock this out. The monster swoops down on him and asks her riddle. In a mysterious voice, she purrs, "Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
It's because we humans crawl on all fours when we're babies, walk upright in our prime, and some walk with a cane when we're old. The Sphinx is so upset that somebody figured out her riddle that she throw herself of a cliff and dies. Dude, she took her riddle mad seriously. When Oedipus shows up in Thebes and announces his deed, everybody thinks he's awesome. Creon makes good on his word, giving him the throne and the hand of Jocasta. Wow, everything is working out great for Oedipus.
Oh, wait, except for the fact that he just unknowingly married his mother. Oedipus and Jocasta get along swell and have a bunch of kids: Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices, and Eteocles.
Eventually, though, a terrible plague comes to Thebes. Everybody is dying and everything sucks. Even the livestock are suffering. King Oedipus sends Creon to the Oracle of Delphi to find out what's going on. The Oracle, in her typically cryptic fashion, declares that the killer of Laius is living in Thebes and must be expelled.
When Creon tells Oedipus this, the King swears that he'll figure out who the killer is and exile the jerk like nobody's business. Creon suggests that Oedipus call in the help of Tiresias , the famous seer, who knows pretty much everything about everything. At first, Tiresias really doesn't want to tell Oedipus what's up, and the seer advises the king to stop seeking the truth.
Oedipus flips out and threatens him, though, and Tiresias finally tells the King that he's actually the murderer that he's looking for. Oedipus doesn't want to believe it, and he accuses Creon and Tiresias of being allied against him. Jocasta tries to comfort Oedipus, telling him that he couldn't be the killer because Laius was killed by robbers at a place where three roads meet.
Meanwhile, a messenger shows up from Corinth to let Oedipus know that Polybus has died. At first, Oedipus is relieved because he thinks this means he'll never fulfill the prophecy that he'll kill his father. Laius was buried where he died by Damasistratus, the king of Plataea. The idea of the Oedipus Complex is derived from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, during which Oedipus learned that he was cursed to kill his father and sleep with his mother.
Why did Jocasta kill herself? In the version of Sophocles, when his city was struck by a plague, Oedipus learned that it was divine punishment for his patricide and incest. Hearing this news, Jocasta hanged herself. What does Oedipus do when he learns the truth? Jocasta realizes the whole truth, but does not reveal her knowledge. He describes the despair of Jocasta, and how Oedipus, after discovering that Jocasta had hanged herself, gouged out his own eyes. The messenger says that Oedipus intends to exile himself from Thebes, but wants first to face the citizens Who did Oedipus bring to death?
Traveling toward Thebes, he encountered Laius, who provoked a quarrel in which Oedipus killed him. Continuing on his way, Oedipus found Thebes plagued by the Sphinx, who put a riddle to all passersby and destroyed those who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx killed herself. What is Oedipus complex in psychology? Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial stage in the normal developmental process.
Sigmund Freud introduced the concept in his Interpretation of Dreams How long is Oedipus Rex? Approximate Running Time: 80 minutes, no intermission. What line does Oedipus blind himself? When Teiresias tells Oedipus that he is the killer that he seeks, Oedipus tells him in line "You have no truth, you're blind. Blind in your eyes. What happens in Oedipus? By leaving his home in Corinth, Oedipus thinks he has escaped a terrible prophecy that says that he will kill his father and marry his mother.
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