Oedipus the King
...th and ask the gods whom his birth parents are. He also chooses to kill the King on the highway and then marry Jocasta. Oedipus chooses to blind himself, but demands to know the truth. He sends for Teiresias and the shepard so he can learn the truth about who killed king. During the story, Oedipus has a lack of patience. Trying to end this mystery of the death of Laios as quickly as possible, Oedipus passes an edict to kill or exile anyone who withholds information. Teiresias tests Oedipus’ patience when he holds out on what he knows, “ You'd try a stone's patience! Out with it"(1393). If Oedipus were more patient he might have not been quite so upset about his fate. Oedipus displayed anger throughout the whole story. We learn of Oedipus' anger as he killed a passerby at the meeting of the three highways; "I struck him in my rage"(1405). Later, Oedipus learns that this passerby whom he angrily and quickly killed, was the king Laios, Oedipus' father. Oedipus' respect for Teiresias changed as Teiresias refused to tell the information he knew. Oedipus began claiming that "Creon has brought this decrepit fortune teller" to mean Oedipus thought of Teiresias as a traitor(1394). Oedipus' anger is also shown as he begins to insult Teiresias by c...