Tragic Flaw

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Oedipus: Has a Profiecy to kill his father and marry his mother so his parents trys to get rid of him. He is  self-centered with excessive pride which leads him to his doom.
 
Tiresias: A blind profeit that sees the true within, and is the person who tells who Oedipus who killed Latuis
 
Jocasta: wife of Oedipus and queen of Thebes. Before Oedipus, she was married to Laius.
 
Messanger from Cornith:he arrives to tell Oedipus that his father (the man Oedipus believes to be his father) Polybus is dead, and that the people of Corinth would like Oedipus to be their king. He also reveals to Oedipus that Polybus and Meropé are not his real parents.
 
Shepherd: the man who gave the baby to the messenger. This is also the same man who witnessed Laius's death.

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