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- Spare my Children
- Oedipus asks to be exiled to the hills of Cithaeron because that is where his parents wanted to bury him as a child. He says he no longer cares about the fairness of fate.
- Oedipus accepts his horrific fate and is willing to take any punishment. He no longer cares about how cruel and vile his punishment is , as long as his children remain safe.
- Exile
- Look on this man, you citizens of Thebes. ...Mankind looks hard.This is and was Oedipus.This man who defeated the Sphinx...The man who became our great and brilliant king,We envied him, we loved him, we admired him.Now he is drowned in a sea of eternal pain.Count no man happy till he dies.Then, free from pain and sorrow -he may lie in piece.
- This concludes the story of Oedipus and his prophecy. He gets banished to live with his guilt rather then dying.
- The Truth
- The End
- You think of him as foreign-born. But he is a theban.His good fortune will turn into sorrow. Through he has eyes, he will be blind.Though he wear purple, he will wear beggar's rags.Leaning upon his staff, he will tap the earth that leads him into exile.To his children he will be both brother and father.To her who gave him birth both son and husband. And to his father he will be both killer and the man who shared his bed.
- I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!!!
- Blindness
- The Prophecy
- This quote explains how the prophecy came to be and tho the murderer of the king really was.
- He told Oedipus that would go to bed with his own mother and that she would have his children. Apollo also foretold that Oedipus would kill his father. Terrified by this horrible prophecy,, Oedipus left his home city of Corinth and traveled to the Thebes.
- The Prophet
- This explains the true killer of Lauis and the horrible prophecy behind Oedipus. The truth shocks everyone.
- I felt such pity for the child. I thought he'd take it to the safety of the country.But he saved it for the worst of griefs.For if you are indeed who this man says... god have mercy on you.You were born into a life of misery
- It can't be...
- The shepard proves Oedipus's theorys that he is in fact cursed with a terrible prophecy.
- ...god have mercy on you.
- ...he tore the brooches from her robe and raised them and plunged them into the sockets of his eyes.
- Oedipus's prophecy came true, and he is now also blind. He couldn't bear to live with the horrible crimes he committed so he thought it would be better to not see.
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