Oedipus Rex As The Tragic Hero

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his decision to marry Jocasta. Had he never married, he could have avoided his misery, "And how can I help dreading my mother's bed?"(35). But where would the story be then? "Declared that I should one day marry my own mother and with my own hands shed my father's blood"(36), as a so-called prophecy and decree carved in granite by Apollo himself.
Throughout the story, there were circumstances that led you to believe that there was no possible way that Oedipus could have killed his father and married his mother such as, "What, did Polybus not beget me?"(36). It was thought a fact that Oedipus' real and true father was Polybus. The audience is truly informed when the messenger reveals, "neither he begat you, nor did I"(36). This is part of the writer's plot to give the audience an emotional roller-coaster ride. So many people tried to tell Oedipus of his grave mistakes and his inevitable future of misery such as Tiresias when he exclaims, "I say that you are Laius' ...

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