“but I have known the story before you told it only too well” (67) This line may be the most characterizing line of all “Oedipus the king”, it expresses the whole of why the play stands about among the hoard of scripts. The line displays the idea of the dramatic irony infused, how the audience understands the true meaning which the actors on stage do not, and that scares us. I believe this motif may lend itself to the idea of this play being created for relatability, a situation in which the audience’s hearts may yearn and attune to. The anxiety of waiting for a brave messenger to profess the truth, regardless of how painful. The understanding of the pain, delirium, and treachery Oedipus is overcome with after hearing it was he who killed the