Precis In Oedipus The King

Precis 1- Oedipus the protagonist of Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus becomes king of Thebes before the action of Oedipus the King begins.Jocasta his wife appears only in the final scenes of Oedipus the King.In her first words, she attempts to make peace between Oedipus and Creon, pleading with Oedipus not to banish Creon.Antigone Oedipus daughter appears briefly at the end of Oedipus the King, when she says goodbye to her father as Creon prepares to banish Oedipus. Early in Oedipus the King, Creon claims to have no desire for kingship.Creon never has our sympathy in the way Oedipus does, because he is bossy and bureaucratic, intent on asserting his own authority. Polynices tries to point out the similarity between his own situation

After a is put upon the city he goes on a quest to discover the truth about the murder of Laius the previous king, he falsely accuses Creon his Brother-in-law and Tiresias a blind prophet of treachery, and forces the prophet to tell the the story of how the previous king was killed once relieved it is publicly clear that Oedipus is the killer and his is married to his mother Jocasta .When comparing the two characters Oedipus and Creon it is clear that Oedipus is the charismatic leader who speaks openly in front of his people, where as Creon is more political and perhaps more scheming.Creon is offended and alarmed when Oedipus accuses him of treason, but he speaks calmly and tries to show the error of the accusation by appealing to Oedipus's sense of reason.Only when Oedipus accuses him of treachery does Tiresias suggest that Oedipus himself is guilty of the murder of King Laius. He leaves Oedipus with a riddle that implies, which states to the audience that Oedipus has killed his father and married his mother.Realizing that her son killed her first husband, that she is now married to her son, Jocasta takes her own