![]() ![]() ![]() CreonĬreon is Oedipus’ brother-in-law and Jocasta’s brother. Teiresias’s prophesy, however, prove true eventually, suggesting that oracles must be trusted being a mouthpiece for the gods. Oedipus summons him to find Laius’s murdererbut becomes enraged when Teiresias charged him for the murder. He knows the truth about Oedipus’s parentage and murderer of king Laius. Teiresias is the blind prophet who made prophesies. When truth revealed to her about her second marriage she commits suicide making tragic end of the play. Jocasta, the queen of Thebes, was the wife of king Laius and after his death she married to Oedipus unknowingly that he is her son. ![]() Greek tragedies were based on “fate is destiny” but there is sufficient role of hamartia which brings his downfall from king to a blind man with no respect. When he comes to know that his heinous crime made this city so terrible he blinds himself. As the story opens he is he is unaware that he has murdered king Laius, his father and married to his mother Jocasta. Oedipus is the king of Thebes and protagonist of the play. Main characters in Oedipus the King are: Oedipus (the king of Thebes), Jocasta, (the queen), Creon (Jocasta’s brother), a priest, a blind prophet, few messengers, a shepherd and a Chorus. ![]()
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