The Oracles Are Always Right

Sophocles's first play, Edepus the king leaves off and the second in the Theban trilogy, this is where it begins. Offstage, Jacasta went to her bedroom and hung herself after she found out that the prophecy you tried so hard to keep from happening totally did happen. And shortly after, when Edepus ran inside himself, he went around yelling at his servants to bring him a sword because he apparently wanted to cut Jacasta's womb outBecause gross and he's taking his anger out on her, which is pretty unreasonable. He takes her down and he mourns over her, but it doesn't take long before he removes the pins that were keeping her