Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex depicts the power of fate and how it is impossible to change our destiny's. As in the case of Oedipus who kills his father and marries his mother even with all the intervensions made to kill him by his father, mother and the shepheard. One of the elements that make this story a sad one is the portrayal of Oedipus's character. He is a person of contradiction and is quick to judgement because he wants to be seen as a good leader. If he had taken his time to find out about the murder of Laius privately or listened to the messenger and his wife and dropped the investigation he might not have found out about the abomination he commited. Oedipus not being able to see past what is in front of him makes his tragedy a very sad one. However one thing i didn't understand was why after Laius's death the throne was given to Oedipus, a stranger and not Creon, Jocsta's brother who is a native of Thebes.