Reactions to specific situations by characters
I will be writing about Jocasta's thought process when the messenger is revealing the truth about Oedipus.
My dear husband Liaus, how I miss you so. Cut down in your prime. My husband Oedipus has worked himself up over trying to find your killer. He fears it might be himself, but this is not possible for the servant told me you were killed by a band of theives. And I know that the gods' prophecies could not be true, our only son is dead, long dead.
What's this? A messanger, he says he has good news. Polybus... is dead? Because of sickness? Oh how wonderful! Oedipus so feared that prophecy of killing his father and sleeping with his mother. Now it is not possible for Polybus has died simply from old age. He is still so afraid of sleeping with his mother through, he need not worry. The likely hood of that happening now are slim to none. After all, he defied the first part of the prophecy.
But...wait. The messenger, he says Oedipus was adopted? He's not the son of Polybus? Perhaps he was some slave child that Polybus took pity on...What?! He found him in the woods by Mount Cithaeron?! Calm down Jocasta, be rational. Your baby is long dead, and many people abondon unwanted babies in the mountains.
No...no No NO! He found him with his ankles pin together?! He recieved him from one of MY servants! NO! Oh gods! Oh merciful gods, why! Oedipus, my husband, my son! He HAS killed his father and slept with me, his mother! He has fufilled your prophecies and now I will die or I will live the rest of my life in misery!!
*She runs into the palace screaming where she then hangs herself*
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