Oedipus The King Summary

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Cal Conroy

Oedipus the King Summary

      When Oedipus is born his parents, King Laius and Queen Jocasta, take their son to the Oracle to find out his future. The Oracle tells  Laius and Jocasta that their soon is doomed. He will firstly kill his father. Secondly he will sleep with his mother and thirdly he will have children with his mother.

      King Laius and Jocasta want to kill Oedipus so he cant follow out his destiny. However if they kill Oedipus themselves they will be breaking the law of the gods. So they get a shephard to take Oedipus up to the top of Mount Olympus and ask him to nail Oedipus ankles to the rock of Mt. Olympus so that he wont be able to escape do therefore wont be been murdered but dying of natural causes.

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      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 ...

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