He is devastated, so he blinds himself and begs Creon to banish him from Thebes so he can die on Mount Kithaeron like his birth parents originally wanted.
Oedipus doesn't believe Tiresias, even when Tiresias spells the truth out to him; he calls him a liar and claims that he is in league with Creon for the throne.
When Teiresias reveals the truth of Oedipus's parentage, Oedipus is horrified. He is sickened by the fact that he killed his father and married his mother. When he finds that his mother/wife has killed herself, he gouges out his own eyes.
Teiresias does tell Oedipus the truth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet announces that Theban King Oedipus is King Laius' killer, Oedipus behaves very badly upon hearing the charge. Teiresias then spells it out that Oedipus will be destroyed before the day's end by the knowledge of his true identity and of the truth behind his role model personal happiness and professional success.
Jocasta, Oedipus' mother/wife hangs herself when she realized the truth about her relationship with Oedipus.
That she already realizes the shape that the complete truth will take is the reason why Jocasta reacts in the way the she does when Oedipus begins to discover the truth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus heads a murder investigation into the mysterious death of King Laius, his royal predecessor and his wife's first husband. In a surprise turn of events, Oedipus looks like the prime suspect. Queen Jocasta rejects such a possibility until the investigation also becomes one of Oedipus' parentage. Just before Jocasta's most trusted servant is brought in, Jocasta says that the investigation must stop. She just states that the findings will hurt her, without specifying that the facts will show her son and her first husband's killer to be Oedipus.
Oedipus doesn't believe Tiresias, even when Tiresias spells the truth out to him; he calls him a liar and claims that he is in league with Creon for the throne.
When Teiresias reveals the truth of Oedipus's parentage, Oedipus is horrified. He is sickened by the fact that he killed his father and married his mother. When he finds that his mother/wife has killed herself, he gouges out his own eyes.
Teiresias does tell Oedipus the truth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet announces that Theban King Oedipus is King Laius' killer, Oedipus behaves very badly upon hearing the charge. Teiresias then spells it out that Oedipus will be destroyed before the day's end by the knowledge of his true identity and of the truth behind his role model personal happiness and professional success.
Jocasta, Oedipus' mother/wife hangs herself when she realized the truth about her relationship with Oedipus.
That she already realizes the shape that the complete truth will take is the reason why Jocasta reacts in the way the she does when Oedipus begins to discover the truth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus heads a murder investigation into the mysterious death of King Laius, his royal predecessor and his wife's first husband. In a surprise turn of events, Oedipus looks like the prime suspect. Queen Jocasta rejects such a possibility until the investigation also becomes one of Oedipus' parentage. Just before Jocasta's most trusted servant is brought in, Jocasta says that the investigation must stop. She just states that the findings will hurt her, without specifying that the facts will show her son and her first husband's killer to be Oedipus.
Because the truth will bring nothing but pain.
belive in yourself
He does not want to tell Oedipus the painful truth.
It is when he hears the eyewitness accounts of the Corinthian messenger and the Theban shepherd that Oedipus recognizes the truth of the situation in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Corinthian messenger identifies Theban King Oedipus as the adopted or foster son of Corinthian monarchs Polybus and Merope. The Theban shepherd indicates that Oedipus is the biological son of Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta and that he is Laius' killer. At that point Oedipus recognizes the truth of his prophesied situation as his father's killer, his mother's husband and his children's half-sibling.
It is from the Corinthian messenger and the Theban shepherd that Oedipus knows the truth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, it is true that King Oedipus is not the biological son of Corinthian monarchs Polybus and Merope. It is true that Oedipus is the killer of Theban King Laius, not of some random stranger, during a street brawl over the right of way at a fateful crossroads. But Oedipus does not know the first truth until he interviews the Corinthian messenger and the Theban shepherd. He does not know the second until the Theban shepherd confirms that Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta are Oedipus' biological parents.
blind prophet who sees only the truth
He wants to find out the whole truth about himsefl and his background