3/7/2024 0 Comments Mastram 2014 movieThe story of Oedipus is known to mostly everyone. Freud helped in that, by using his name to characterise the way some sons view their mothers, the Oedipus complex. Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta. Laius received the oracle from the gods, that his son will kill him and take his crown. So Laius decides to kill his son when he is still a baby. The shepherd in charge of the dreadful deed did not succeed. Instead he offers the baby to another shepherd, and he offers it to the king of Corinth. Oedipus spends his childhood years believing that he is the son of Polybus and Merope, king and queen of Corinth. Until one night a drunk at the palace tells him of the oracle, that he is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus, without a second thought, flees from the palace.Īs he is wondering around the Greek land, he comes to a crossroad. There in a conflict, he kills Laius- a stranger to him. He solves the riddle given to him by the Sphinx and enters Thebes as a conqueror. Thebes offers him the queen, to be his queen, and the crown. He is now king of Thebes and married to Jocasta. The gods are appalled by this and send a plague to destroy Thebes. Only when the Thebans find the murderer will they be saved.
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