Suicide is the last thing that Jocasta commits in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. -- 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta tries to help her second husband, King Oedipus, solve the murder of her first husband, King Laius. But things take an unexpected, uncomfortable turn when Teiresias the blind prophet says that Oedipus is the killer and when the Corinthian messenger says that Corinthian monarchs Polybus and Merope are not Oedipus' biological parents. Keeping in mind a prophecy that she denigrates about Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother, Jocasta faces unenviable facts and goes off to hang herself with the threads from her own robes.
Oedipus marries Jocasta.
That Jocasta hangs herself and that Oedipus blinds himself, loses his job and is placed under house arrest are what happens to Jocasta and Oedipus in the last part of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban monarchs Oedipus and Jocasta realize that much more than husband and wife they are son and mother. They also realize that Jocasta's first husband is killed albeit unknowingly by Jocasta's second husband, Oedipus. That knowledge causes Jocasta to hang herself and Oedipus to blind himself, lose his royal powers and residence, and suffer house arrest until divine will indicates whether he is to be executed or exiled for his criminal act and immoral behavior.
Jocasta is Oedipus' real mother in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta is King Oedipus' real biological mother. But she last sees him when he is three days old. She thinks that he is dead, and Oedipus believes his mother to be someone else.
Oedipus flees Corinth
Last of the choice of four events in 'Oedipus Rex' is Theban King Oedipus' marriage to Theban Queen Jocasta. Third is Oedipus' freeing Thebes from the beastly, bullying Sphinx. Second is Oedipus' killing of four out of five men at a crossroads where three paths meet. First is Oedipus' flight from Corinth.
Theban King Oedipus doesn't kill himself. But Jocasta's brooches are what he last sees before blinding himself. Theban Queen Jocasta is his wife and his mother. It's the love for her as his wife that makes him use the brooches to take away his sight. It's the horror over learning that she's his mother that makes him do the blinding.
His wife is what Oedipus last sees before he punishes himself in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus finds the body of his wife Queen Jocasta hanging from the threads of her robes. He moves her to the floor. He then removes the brooches that hold her robes together and blinds himself with them.
A messenger announces Jocasta's death. Oedipus asks Creon to banish him from Thebes. Creon brings Oedipus's children to him. Oedipus asks that he be allowed to bring his children with him into exile.
The last thing Oedipus saw before he punished himself was the sight of Jocasta, his wife and mother, who had hanged herself after discovering the truth about their relationship. Overwhelmed by grief and horror at the realization of his actions and fate, Oedipus then blinded himself, symbolizing his inability to face the tragic reality he had uncovered. His self-inflicted punishment serves as a profound acknowledgment of his guilt and despair.
It is because of divine curses that the evil is willed on Oedipus and Jocasta in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban monarchs Jocasta, Laius and Oedipus descend from the royal house of King Polydorus that is cursed by Dionysus the wine god. Divine curses leave only when the last descendants feel the cumulative weight of generations of divine wrath. Additionally, Laius offends the gods through his misbehavior with the under aged Chrysippus of Peloponnesus and through forbidden martial relations with his own wife, Queen Jocasta.
The following is the correct order of certain events in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.):1. A messenger announces Jocasta's death.2. A messenger announces Oedipus' self-blinding.3. Oedipus asks Creon to exile him from Thebes.4. Oedipus visits with his children one last time.
A messenger announces Jocasta's death. A messenger announces that Oedipus has blinded himself. Oedipus asks Creon to exile him from Thebes. Oedipus visits with his children one last time. Creon asks Oedipus to leave his children in Thebes.