Beginning of Essay
is a play about the tragedy that follows after an oracle comes to King Laius of Thebes and tells him that the son he has by Jocasta will kill his father and marry his mother. Everything that happens from then on is about a variety of characters trying to overcome ....

Middle of Essay
.... When he receives the child, he unpins the baby’s ankles and gives him the name Oedipus, which means “swollen feet”. He cares for the baby and when he returns to Corinth, he gives the child to Polybus and his wife Merope, who raise the boy until he reached manhood. Right after that, as Oepipus travels around the countryside, the inevitable happens. “...When in my travels I was come near this place where three roads meet, There met me a herald, and a man that rode In a colt carriage, as you tell of him, And from the track the leader, by main force, And the old man himself, would thrust me. I, Being enraged, strike him who jostled me-- ....