Part one of term paper
is a play about the tragedy that follows after an oracle comes to King Lauis of Thebes and tells him that the son he has with Jacasta, will kill his father and marry his mother. Everything that happens from then on is about a variety of characters trying to overcome fate. But as you read the play, you can see that this doesn't work,that Laui ...

Part two of term paper
... promise to dispose of the newborn child and to save his fate. He then gives the young child to his head shepherd to cast out into the wild,where he will die. The childs ankles are then pinned together,but the sheherd hasn't the heart to get rid of the child,so he gives the child to another shepherd from a land called Corinth. Once the shepherd receives the child,he unpins his ankles and names him Oedipus,which comes from "swollen feet",as when they were pinned,they were swollen.He cares for the chi ...