Tragedy is a key part of understanding human nature. If nothing is tragic, there is little joy in comedy. However, every good tragedy needs a hero. The more human this protagonist is, the clearer and more afflicting his unavoidable downfall is. Sometimes, though, this tragic hero’s flaw harms not only him, but everybody else in the situation. Oedipus’s search to find Laius’s murderer, adverse to the other characters’ advice, resulted in Jocasta’s death, Oedipus’s wife and mother. Oedipus begs Tiresias to reveal who Laius’s murderer is, but Tiresias answers only that he knows the truth but wishes he did not. Puzzled at first, then angry, Oedipus insists that Tiresias tells Thebes what he knows. Oedipus’s actions before the play started, and