ays in response, “Now twice you have spat out infamy. You’ll pay for it (I i 145).” Second, his pride prevents him from seeing the similarities between Iocaste’s story of how her husband died with his own story of how he got to Thebes. Iocate tells him that Laios was killed at a place where three highways meet (I ii 185-94) and this jogs Oedipus’s memory and he tells the story of how he killed a man where three highways came together. He then proceeds to say, “If he maintains that still, if there were several, clearly the guilt is not mine: I was alone. But if he says one man, singledhanded, did it, Then the evidence all points to me (I ii 315-19).” Thus, because of his pride, he still believes that it is just purely considence that he killed a man where three roads meet and the King died at the same spot. In the end, his ultimate pride was shown in the fact that he thought that he could out smart the gods by leaving Polybus and Merope. This pride prevents him from seeing all the truths that were right in front of his face and also caused several consequences.The pride that Oedipus posessed throughout the play caused several things to occur as the Oracle told them. One of the things that effected all the people of Thebes was the plague. First, Creon, the brother of Iocaste, goes to the Oracle and is told, “He [Laios] was murdered; and Apollo commands us now to take revenge upon whoever killed him (I ii 110).” Oedipus’s pride, which made him think that he could beat the gods, caused the plague in the city of Thebes. The only reason he had to leave Corinth was to avoid his fate and prevent himself from killing his father and marrying his mother. Thus, if Oedipus did not think that he could beat the gods, then it is very likely that he would not have left Corinth. Second, Oedipus’s pride prevented him from realizing that Tireseas was right when he said that he was the murd...
