Later on the shepherd thinks about Oedipus and cant cope that he has done what he has been asked. So the Sheppard goes back up and saves Oedipus. While talking to another Sheppard, the Sheppard finds out that King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth were wanting a child but couldn’t have one. So the shephard tells the shepard from Corinth his situation. The shephard takes Oedipus to Corinth and gives him to Polybus and Merope.
Years later at a party someone calls Oedipus a bastard. Oedipus doesn’t understand what he means. So Oedipus goes and visits the Oracle to find out his destiny. Oedipus is told of his destiny that he is to kill his father, sleep with his mother and also have children with his mother. With this Oedipus flees Corinth in a way to hopefully not for fill his destiny.
While Oedipus is walking along he comes to a cross road and gets into a fight and kills the people. [Oedipus has killed King Laius, his father, committed first part of his destiny.]
Oedipus arrives at a plague stricken Thebes. No one can solve the riddle of the Sphinx. The riddle is “What starts its life on 4 legs, goes through most of it’s life on 2 legs then finishes its life on 3 leg?” Oedipus answers the correct answer that it’s a “human”. As he is the hero of Thebes for saving them of the plague they tell Jocasta, [Oedipus’s real mother], about Oedipus. She invites him to live in the palace with her.
Jocasta marries Oedipus and has children with him. However a new plague is unleashed upon Thebes. It wont go away until the killer of King Lauis is driven out of Thebes. Oedipus being the determined character his is starts on the case straight away by sending for Tiresias, the blind prophet. Tiresias knows that Oedipus is the killer and try’s to tell him but Oedipus is blind to the truth.
Oedipus continues to search for the killer but is only digging in further to finding out that it was him that killed Laius, [his real father]. Finally Tiresias tells Oedipus the truth. Jocasta also hears this. Jocasta runs into the palace and hangs herself in the chamber room. Oedipus comes in to find Jocasta dangling by the neck in a noose. Oedipus lets out a great cry and goes over to Jocasta and takes off her broach. He then looks up and brings down the points of the broach down into his eyes. Oedipus does this so he can no longer see the pain and suffering he has caused.
Oedipus comes out of the palace and says goodbye to his daughters and asks Creon to look after them. With this Oedipus leaves Thebes.