Oedipus #2

It's interesting that theater back then was preformed with only three characters speaking at a time. And a chorus. For example, on pages 223-224, Jocasta needs to run off the stage in order for another third character to run on stage, the character of the shepherd. Oh...that's farther than we were supposed to read tonight. Oh well.
Anyway, another interesting part was that in ancient Greece, everyone knew the story of Oedipus. Who wrote it? Where did it come from originally? Sophocles just created a new version of it. Watching Sophocles' Oedipus must have been like teenage girls today seeing a Twilight movie. They know what is going to happen, so they notice all the little details and the foreshadowing involved in the movie. For example, Sophocles repeatedly refers to blindness throughout the beginning of the play. At the end, Oedipus ends up blinding himself. The story of Oedipus and his prophecy also pieces together faster for the reader than for Oedipus or Jocasta. Even Jocasta understands what is going on before Oedipus, who is so caught up in his excitement to figure out who his parents are that he ignores the facts just spoken by Jocasta. It is evident that Jocasta is his mother, and Laius his father. Therefor Jocasta is also his wife while his children are also his sisters. Now that's screwed up.