Oedipus the king~
in this play the people of thebes come to the king for help. they have givin up hope and can't do it on their own anymore. King O thinks the same and says that he has also suffared just as much or probably even more because he has so many people to worry about and also his family and his own life. He says he sent a messager to the gods, he sent creon his brother in law. he comes back and says that the plague is because of the person who killed the last king. king O tells the elders to come forward if they know anything, they wouldn't be killed but they would be banished. no one speaks up until a attendent with theisians comes. Thesisians is blind but he knows who killed the last king. He says its King O who did it and that King O also married his mother. He gives this to him by saying it in riddles. King O doesn't want to believe Thesians and mocks him and says very cruel things about him. a lot of messagers come and also servents but by the end they finally find out who did it for sure and king O knows that it was actually him. He was destined to do it. Thats why in the first place his mother got rid of him, thinking he was dead, but he really wasn't. Queen J knows this is true too so she goes into her bedroom never speaking to King O again and freaks out basically and kills herself by hanging. King O finds her with terror and takes her pins and jabs them into his eyes many times. There is blood every. Pouring from his eyes. He doesn't think he should be able to see anymore. He doesn't derserve to. He is actually really hard on himself i think, for something that he didn't mean to do and he didn't even know what he was doing because he was destined to do it. He asks Creon in the end if he will take care of his two girls. Creon promises he will. Creon also becomes King.
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