![]() ![]() He too had been a foundling, discovered on the earth’s surface mysteriously alive, whose early existence had been nasty, brutish and brief. Oedipus had an ambivalent character and a doubtful destiny. These are unconscious actions which free a personal from moral responsibility of his actions. It is possible to refute these arguments and use examples of Jocasta’s telling Oedipus that he resembles her late husband the fact that Oedipus walks with a limp and that his name means “swollen foot” the fact that he marries a woman old enough to be his mother. There is something in the symbolism of his career, and in the words with which it is memorialized, which is evocative of drama not upon the tragic stage but in the theories and speculations of Greek science. ![]() ![]() This is his destiny, and for this he prays in abnegation at the close of the play. He is to be returned to the mountain side, to the lonely natural earth whence he came. Elected king of Thebes, he is the source of her security and the symbol of her law state and society repose in his keeping. Unconscious events cannot be used to justify actions of Oedipus as he is a man of power driven by personal gain and desire to use his power. ![]()
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