Oedipus
...esias proved to be bad, especially since Teiresias foretold the ending of the story. If Oedipus had been more patient and waited, he might have not been quite so upset about the future, nor shaken up about what was to happen. Oedipus’ haste led to discontent from Teiresias, who came out with the truth in his anger. However, that one trait did not alone take away his position of high authority. Oedipus displayed anger through his power throughout the whole story, which did not help him at all. During the story, we learn of Oedipus' anger as he knocked a passerby at the meeting of the three highways; "I struck him in my rage". Later, this passerby whom he angrily and quickly killed, was happened to be King Laius, also the true father of Oedipus. The whole predicament Oedipus is in all came about because he had a quick temper and killed an innocent passerby. Oedipus' anger also quickly shifted his judgment of Teiresias. "We are in your hands. There is no fairer duty". Oedipus' respect for Teiresias quickly changed as Teiresias refused to tell of what was the trouble's cause. Teiresias knew that if he came out with the truth it would do more harm than good. Because of Teiresias’ silence, Oedipus began to claim that "Creon has brought this decrepit fortune teller" to mean that Teiresias was thought of as a traitor, or a fluke in Oedipus' thinking. Oedipus' anger is also shown as he begins to insult Teiresias by calling him a "wicked old man". Oedipus' anger throughout the beginning of the play blinded himself from the truth. Oedipus’ anger led to discontent from Teiresias, who came out with the truth in his irritation. A third characteristic that brought about Oedipus’ downfall was his own stupidity. Oedipus had just murdered a passerby on the road to Thebes. When he arrives at Thebes, he hears the king has just been killed while on the road. With these facts, while also knowing of his fate from the oracle, the thought does not even cross Oedipus’ mind that he might have killed the king. While asking Teiresias for information, Teiresias states that it is best for Oedipus not to know the truth. Oedipus still tries to get it out of Teiresias, who becomes angered and tells Oedipus in his rage. Oedipus knew what his fate was: to kill his father and marry his mother. He just killed a man and recently got married. Oedipus is blind to the fact that there is the possibility that he has fulfilled his fate. The final characteristic that was Oedipus' greatest enemy throughout the entirety of the play ...