Oedipus The King

I really gained a better understanding of the tragedy by the descriptions given in the BIL. Oedipus' slow decent from grace of once being the savior of Thebes by solving the Sphinx's riddle while escaping what he presumed was his horrible fate in Corinth. Even the choice of context Sophocles gave Oedipus when he was cursing the murderer of Laius, the cause of the plague in Thebes, was so tragically ironic because it proved to the reader how unaware he was of his own crimes, killing his father and marrying his mother. Still, he did face his punishment honorably, even after blinding himself. This seemed almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy in some ways. Oedipus hoped to escape his fate only to dive right into it.