Oedipus...Scene+3

Oedipus as a child already started off with a hard or ironic life... Soon as Oedipus was born, his parents stabbed his foot and ankle together so that he could not crawl away. Oedipus' parents went to the oracle and the oracle had told them that the wife Jocaste would bare a son and that son of hers would marry her. The king Lauis was told by the oracle that his son Oedipus would kill him. This is the reason why the decided to do what they did to Oedipus... and (this was just a brief summary of the reason to everything that happens in this book