Oedipus The King :: Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

Oedipus The King Did the omen author his component part?Undoubtedly there has been a tremendous amount of speculation and dissection of this tend by countless people throughout the ages. I can single draw my own conclusions as to what Sophocles intended the meaning of his play to be. The swordplay included a number of horrific and unthinkable moral and honest dilemas, but I believe that was what made the play so fire and that is exactly the way Sophocles intended it to be. The play was obviously meant to entertain and pose the authors own insight. The underlying theme to the play is that no homosexual should know his own destiny, it will be generate his undoing. This knowledge of things to come was pre displaceed to both Laius and Oedipus in the form of prophecies well in advance of it flood tide to be. The prophecies told of things that were so morally disturbing that they both aggressively did everything in their force to try and stop them from coming true. The story b egins with Oedipus at the height of government agency as King of Thebes. His kingdom has encountered rough times and he has sent his nobleman Creon to seek help from the god Apollo to restore his land. Creon tells Oedipus that he moldiness find the murderer of the previous King Laius and by finding this man and banishing him, his land will be restored. The murder occurred some time agone and King Oedipus sends for the seer Theiresias with his powers of prophecy to aid in the search for the murderer. Sophocles sprucely projects his feelings on intelligence and knowledge through Teirsias when he says Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man thats wise(23) Teirsias knows that this terrible prophecy has already been set into motion and the damage has already been done. There is truly no point in telling it to Oedipus because it will only cause more harm than good. Oedipus provokes Teirsias into telling him the prophecy, tell you, king, this man, this murder er-he is here. In name he is a stranger among citizens but soon he will be shown to be a citizen true native Theban, and hell have no joy of the discovery blindness for sight and beggary for riches his exchange, he shall go journeying to a foreign country tapping his way befor him with a stick.