who murdered Laius? What is the significance of the identity of the murder based on Oedipus' earlier decrees?

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Explanation:The audience, familiar with the Oedipus story, almost does not want to listen to these self-assured lines, spoken by Jocasta, wherein she treats incest with a startling lightness that will come back to haunt her. What makes these lines tragic is that Jocasta has no reason to know that what she says is foolish, ironic, or, simply, wrong. The audience's sense of the work of "fate" in this play has almost entirely to do with the fact that the Oedipus story was an ancient myth even in fifth-century B.C. Athens. The audience's position is thus most like that of Tiresias—full of the knowledge that continues to bring it, and others, pain.

At the same time, it is important to note that at least part of the irony of the passage does depend on the play, and the audience, faulting Jocasta for her blindness. Her claim that "chance rules our lives" and that Oedipus should live "as if there's no tomorrow" seems to fly in the face of the beliefs of more or less everyone in the play, including Jocasta herself. Oedipus would not have sent Creon to the oracle if he believed events were determined randomly. Nor would he have fled Corinth after hearing the prophecy of the oracle that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother; nor would Jocasta have bound her baby's ankles and abandoned him in the mountains. Again and again this play, and the other Theban plays, return to the fact that prophecies do come true and that the words of the gods must be obeyed. What we see in Jocasta is a willingness to believe oracles only as it suits her: the oracle prophesied that her son would kill Laius and so she abandoned her son in the mountains; when Laius was not, as she thinks, killed by his son, she claims to find the words of the oracle worthless. Now she sees Oedipus heading for some potentially horrible revelation and seeks to curb his fear by claiming that everything a person does is random.

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Explanation:

Teiresias tells Oedipus that he (Oedipus) was the one who kIlled Laius. Oedipus, furi0us, ac_uses Creon and Teiresias of framing him in order to gain control of the kingdom. Creon is thrEatened with dEath by Oedipus. After Creon leaves, Oedipus ch ats to his wIfe Jocasta about what's going on.

Oedipus assassInated King Laius at a triple crossroads, or "where three paths meet." Crossroads typically represent a decision that must be taken. However, Laius' assaSsination took place in the distant past. Because Oedipus' decision has already been decided, the triple crossroads becomes a metaphor of fate rather than choice.

When Laius became enraged, he either threw a chariot wheel over his foot or struck him with his whIp, and Oedipus murdered him and all of his attendants, with the exception of one, who believes it was a gAng of men. Damasistratus, the king of Plataea, buried Laius Where he diEd.

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