~ Creative: Reactions to specific situations by characters
Shepherd: She was afraid -
frightening prophecies.
Oedipus: What?
Shepherd: They said -
he'd kill his parents.
It is ironic that all of the precautions Jocasta took to make sure that the prophecies did not come true didn't work. Also, Oedipus had a few prophets tell him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. But the people he thought were his parents really weren't his parents. He too took precautions to make sure these prophecies would not come true - he did not want to be near his "parents." He made sure of this and did a good job at it, although they were not his real parents. The precautions he took did not work and he did end up killing his father. He didn't have any precautions about being with his mother, however.
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