Week 17 Extra Credit-Oedipus Rex

This was a classic play of epic proportion. After King Laius learns from an oracl that "he is doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," he quickly sends the son away to be killed. This itself was a tough decsion, but i would see why it needed to be made. For one, if he let his son grow up to kill him he can assume that his son would be evil because he killed him, then married is mother. Although, him sending the child to die is a sign of evilness. Which could implie that on day he will be an unfit king, who needs to be killed.
Since the queen couldn't do it, she left the job to a servent. This was the kings first mistake, if he wanted to kill the baby, he should've made sure it was dead, or better yet kill it himself. By leaving it up to someone else, who couldn't even do the job, he left the fate of the child to the gods, who has already cursed his fate.
As the rest of the story goes, Oedipus goes on a journy in search of his parents. On his journey he comes across his father, unknown to him. He kills him and when he gets into town marries his own mother just as the orical said. Im not sure if its believable, because i couldn't imagine a king being killed by one man, since he would have other warriors with him for protection. I also believe the queen would've marry so fast. And to a person that just blew into town. The queen should've remembered the old orical, and thought back to her son.
Fred, thinks he sees some of him in all of use, because we all want power and love. And Oedipus did what Fred thinks we all want to do. Kill our father and marry our mother. This is a common theroy but also very conterversial.