The plays Oedipus the King and The Bacchae, both deal with the understanding of what humans can comprehend. In the play Oedipus, an oracle foretold a story of a man who would kill his father and marry his mother. In the play The Bacchae, people were told a woman named Semele was impregnated by Zeus, and no one believed her. In both of these instances, people should have listened to what they were told.
In Oedipus, a plague has spread through the countryside killing many people, and crippling the kingdom. Oedipus sends his brother-in-law to ask the oracle what needs to be done to fix his lands. His brother-in-law tells him that murderer of Laius (the king before Oedipus) must be driven out for the plague to end. Only one person in Laius’s
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