"Oedipus the King"

     Fates foretold, jealousy, incest, and needles to the eyes... Yes indeed this play has everything.  Oedipus the King was written by Sophocles in about 429 BC.

     Oedipus Rex is one of those guys who just can't catch a break.  Through the tellings of an oracle, it is foretold that Oedipus will one day kill his father and marry his mother.  Oedipus finds this crazy because he loves his parents very dearly and would never hurt them in that way.  Little does he know, though, that he is actually adopted.
     Several years later, Oedipus becomes king by marrying queen Jocasta (whose husband was killed many years prior by a group of robbers).  When Oedipus learns news of how Jocasta's first husband actually died, he recalls a time when he was nearly run off the road by a carriage.  For revenge, Oedipus kills the owner of the carriage.  As you may have guessed, the man Oedipus killed in the carriage was his biological father, therefore, the woman he has been sleeping with is actually his mother.  And, just as any man would do, he gouges his eyes out with needles and attempts to exile himself.  But he is relieved of this duty which leads into the next play.

I give it 3 out of 5 Wildes.