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Oedipus took an intellectual journey throughout the play. A journey to find the truth. In order to find the truth he had to go through three stages. These three stages were Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Information are the facts and evidence that hel ....

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.... them, Oedipus can begin to solve the puzzle to saving the city from the plague. Knowledge is the knowing and the understanding of the facts and information you have gathered. This knowledge will amount to something useful. Organized facts can be applied to the solution to the puzzle of truth. Oedipus’ second purpose to finding the truth is to find the killer of King Liaus. His motivations to finding the assassin is to prove his own innocence to the people of Thebes. While having these motivations in him, he makes a proclamation that if anyone knows who the killer is, they must come forward and tell the truth. He also damns a curse ....