How Oedipus causes his own self-destruction in "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles

The play "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles is a tragedy in which the main character, Oedipus Rex, killed his father and married his mother. Approaching the end of the play, Creon, now the King of Thebes, said to Oedipus, "Think no longer/That you are in command here, but rather think/How, when you were, you served your own destruction." Creon is correct in this pronouncement. Three times throughout the play, Oedipus failed to take the …

…curiosity and rashness which made it impossible for him to heed their advice. Intrigued by the remarks of the drunk at the banquet, he set in motion the sequence of events leading to his own destruction. At various points in the story he conceivably could have interrupted the unfolding events. Polybus, Teiresias, and Jocasta counseled a more careful measure approach. However, his rashness and curiosity impelled him forward until he had created his own doom.