I tried to find how many hidden messages (or themes) Oedipus has and these two came to my mind first. One is fate is something that one can't escape. Laius tried to avoid the prediction that he is going to be killed by his son and abandoned his child. However, because of that, his son killed him without knowing that Laius was his father. Oedipus also tried to avoid the prediction of him killing his father and sleeping with his mother by running away; but because he ran away, he killed his father and slept with his mother. It's kind of like it was their fate to listen to the fortune teller, which lead them to trying to avoiding the predictions and fall in to the prediction. Another hidden message that came to me was a "man's debt is his child's pay" (I don't remember the real phrase). But what this phrase is trying to say is that because Laius and his wife committed a sin by abandoning child , and because of that his son had to pay the price of killing Laius and sleeping with his mother. This also link to another similar theme that is everything has its price. What I mean is if you do a bad thing, at some point in your life, you'll have to pay for it. If anyone find out another theme of the book so far, please tell me, I'm interested :]
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