A prophecy of a boy who kills his father and marries his mother comes true in the story of Oedipus. Sophocles wrote Oedipus the King, a play about a man who kills his father and marries his mother without realizing it. Oedipus leaves Corinth, the city he grew up in after being found hanging by his ankles as a baby, and he kills his father, Laius, and his father's servants. Then he arrives in Thebes and solves the riddle of the Sphinx, which allows him to be the ruler of Thebes and to marry Jocasta, his mother. Eventually, Jocasta commits suicide and Oedipus goes blind. Some themes of Oedipus Rex are: thinking before acting on something, not being selfish or ignorant, and sight versus blindness. An important theme in Oedipus Rex is to think before acting on something. The main character Oedipus says: “Is it bearable that I hear such words from him? Leave and a curse goes with you! Quickly home with you! Get out of my house immediately” (Sophocles, 484). Oedipus cursed Tiresias, a blind soothsayer, because he thought Tiresias was plotting with Creon, Oedipus's brother-in-law.....