Justice in Oedpius the King :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

Justice in Oedpius the world-beater Oedipus is non formally charged with any crimes. He does issue however to commit incest, and murder. His father is cursed. The curse states that his watchword will pop up him and marry his wife. These facts are discovered in the introductory, ...if laius , king of thebes, had a son by jocasta, his queen, that son would kill his father and marry his fret. Laius in sprightly of these facts has Oedipus abandoned as a child. Another family raises him as their own. Oedipus was on his guidance to town when he encountered a carriage. Some negative events transpired and Oedipus kills the entire caravan. He continues on towards the city only to find that a sphinx was terrorizing the city with a riddle. It killed every man that answered the riddle incorrectly. Oedipus arrived at the solution and saves the city. He is presently proclaimed King. He does not know he has killed the former King nor do the people. He marries the queen which just happens to be his biological bring and has children by her. ...child of impurity, begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self. Oedipus does not try to defend his actions. In fact he blames himself as quoted from the bill Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more after straightaway I who first saw you the light bred of a match execrate, and accursed . The consequences of his actions are harsh. He stabs his own eyes out and his wife/mother took her own life. Justice is defined as the abstract principle by which right and