A Brief Summary of Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex is the story of a king, in which pride proves to be his downfall. In the city of Thebes, on that point was a great nuisance, so in order for this plague to stop actions needed to be taken. Oedipus gathers the city together for a town meeting where the mountain express their concerns about what is possibility to the town. He expresses that he has direct Creon to the oracle to attain the fore of this plague and that he should be returning anytime. Creon arrives back in Thebes and tells non only Oedipus, barely the townspeople as well, that the fence for this plague was because the murderer of their causality ruler Laius was in the town. Oedipus bears it truly clear that he impart do whatever it takes to find the murderer and for the townspeople to put out any information they great power have.\nOedipus calls on Creon to bring Teriesias, a prophet to the city of Thebes to economic aid to reveal who might be the murderer. Teriesias basically blames the murd er of Laius on Oedipus in front of the townspeople. This makes Oedipus very angry and he is which to make assumptions that someone is plotting against him. He predicts that since it was Creon who got the vaticinator to come, they that were both difficult to swage him from his throne. Oedipus threatens Creon with exile but Jocasta, Creons sister, intervenes and prevents it claiming the prophecies are always wrong.\nOedipus does everything he can to try to contour out the murderer including convey a seer to Thebes. This seer indirectly blames the murder on Oedipus. This makes Oedipus very angry, and he takes his fury out on the valet who got the seer to come to Thebes, Creon. He guesses that Creon wants to become king and is trying to overthrow him by communicate the seer to come. He was in the process of exiling Creon from the town when Jocasta, Oedipuss wife tells him not to. She does this for the master(prenominal) reason of Creon being her brother. She explains to Oedipu s that the seers visions are not always corr...