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, there was a great offense, so in order for this call forth to forego actions needed to be taken. Oedipus gathers the city together for a township meeting where the people testify their concerns ab appear what is happening to the town. He expresses that he has sent Creon to the prophet to find the root of this plague and that he should be return any(prenominal)time. Creon arrives back in Thebes and tells not only Oedipus, but the townsfolk as well, that the tenability for this plague was because the liquidator of their former formula Laius was in the town. Oedipus makes it truly straighten that he will do whatever it takes to find the murderer and for the townspeople to infract any information they might have.\nOedipus calls on Creon to bring Teriesias, a visionary to the city of Thebes to help to reveal who might be the murderer. Teriesias essentially blames the murde r of Laius on Oedipus in front of the townspeople. This makes Oedipus very irascible and he is which to make assumptions that person is plotting against him. He predicts that since it was Creon who got the magician to come, they that were some(prenominal) trying to overrule him from his throne. Oedipus threatens Creon with emigration but Jocasta, Creons sister, intervenes and prevents it claiming the prophecies be invariably wrong.\nOedipus does everything he mint to try to figure give away the murderer including bringing a prophet to Thebes. This seer indirectly blames the murder on Oedipus. This makes Oedipus very angry, and he takes his anger out on the man who got the seer to come to Thebes, Creon. He guesses that Creon wants to experience king and is trying to overthrow him by asking the seer to come. He was in the mental process of exiling Creon from the town when Jocasta, Oedipuss wife tells him not to. She does this for the main reason of Creon being her brothe r. She explains to Oedipus that the seers visions are not always corr...