Jocasta and the Chorus beg Oedipus to be open-minded: Oedipus unwillingly relents and allows Creon to go. The Chorus tries to mediate, but Oedipus appears and charges Creon with treason. Furious, Oedipus dismisses him, and Teiresias goes, repeating as he does, that Laius's killer is right here before him - a man who is his father's killer and his mother's husband, a man who came seeing but will leave in blindness.Ĭreon enters, asking the people around him if it is true that Oedipus slanderously accused him. Oedipus takes this as an insult and jumps to the conclusion that Creon paid Teiresias to say these things. Oedipus threatens him with death, and finally Teiresias tells him that Oedipus himself is the killer, and that his marriage is a sinful union. When Teiresias arrives, he seems reluctant to answer Oedipus's questions, warning him that he does not want to know the answers. Oedipus tells them that he has already sent for Teiresias. The Chorus (representing the people of Thebes) suggests that Oedipus consult Teiresias, the blind prophet. Hearing this, Oedipus swears he will find the murderer and banish him. Creon returns, bearing good news: once the killer of the previous king, Laius, is found, Thebes will be cured of the plague (Laius was Jocasta's husband before she married Oedipus).
Oedipus, the king of Thebes, has sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to the house of Apollo to ask the oracle how to end the plague. When the play opens, Thebes is suffering a plague which leaves its fields and women barren.
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