This argument between Oedipus and Teiresias about who killed Laius led Oedipus to make a promise to punish the murderer, foreshadowing how Oedipus punishes himself and keeps the promise. Teiresias displays an ironic attitude and symbolizes the whole conundrum of the play, by slowly revealing the prophecy. Later on, in the play, when Oedipus has an conversation with Jocasta, he comes to a realization that he has done the dirty sin that is written in his fate. When the news spreads of Jocasta being married to her biological son, she can not live with the shame, and makes a decision to end her life. Oedipus sees the sight of his mother's death and says that no one will no longer see the pain he has caused, "You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this
This argument between Oedipus and Teiresias about who killed Laius led Oedipus to make a promise to punish the murderer, foreshadowing how Oedipus punishes himself and keeps the promise. Teiresias displays an ironic attitude and symbolizes the whole conundrum of the play, by slowly revealing the prophecy. Later on, in the play, when Oedipus has an conversation with Jocasta, he comes to a realization that he has done the dirty sin that is written in his fate. When the news spreads of Jocasta being married to her biological son, she can not live with the shame, and makes a decision to end her life. Oedipus sees the sight of his mother's death and says that no one will no longer see the pain he has caused, "You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this