Oedipus Rex- Scenes 3&4/ Exodos

Abstract
      Oedipus finds out that he is incensed and that in fact his wife is his mother too. He didn't understand how this could be possible until it was explained to him by one of the messengers who knew the shepherd that found Oedipus when he was younger. Oedipus was abandoned by his parents when they heard the oracle from Apollo about their son killing his father. They left Oedipus to die, but he was found by a man who then gave Oedipus to the shepherd who gave him to his so called parents. Once Oedipus was older he heard of this oracle and wanted to escape. While he was escaping he killed Laios, who was Oedipus's actual father. Oedipus cannot believe this at all. He immediately goes to his wife which he finds has hung herself. Oedipus tears his eyes out with the brooch’s on his wife's dress. He wants to be blind because then he won't see those that he created a troubled life for. He begs that Kreon the new ruler takes him out in the middle of nowhere and dumps him off there to die.

Response
       As I read this story I felt that the ending was kind of predictable. I feel that Sophocles set these thoughts up earlier in the play, with Kreon telling Oedipus that he murdered Laios. At first Oedipus doesn't want to believe it's true and he can't think of any evidence that would make this true until he talks to the messenger. he then puts the pieces together and realizes that Laios was in fact his father.
       Scenes three and four really deal with the theory that Sigmund Freud developed called "Psychosexual development". In this theory Sigmund tells us how younger boys want to kill their fathers so that they can have their mother's to themselves. This theory is present in the oracle that Apollo tells Laios and his wife when Oedipus was younger. The whole problem with Oedipus is that he was trying to prevent himself from killing his father, when in actuality thats exactly what he did. 
       Once Oedipus is older and finds out what he has done, he goes into a state of denial. He doesn't want to admit he killed his father and even more he doesn't want to say that his children are from his mother. This thought just brings shame on Oedipus. Once he accepts what he has done, he makes sure that he receives the consequences that were put in place for the murderer of Laios. On top of those consequences Oedipus cuts his eyes out. He feels as though what he has done he can never live with and doesn't want to see those he hurt. He apologizes to his children and wants to make sure that they marry in the future and are not effected by his poor decisions.