“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings”(Brainyquote). This quote by Ezra Taft benson relates a lot too the tragedies “Oedipus Rex And The Bacchae. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is a the king of Corinth cast away by his father as a baby because it was foretold that one day he would kill his him. Thee prophecy told Laius, oedipus father, that Oedipus was going to kill him and marry his mother. Louis tries to escape his faith and cast his son away.Oedipus grows up as the son of another king and tries to escape his fate by fleeing. Along the way he kills his father.He eventually saves his home from a sphinx and then he marries his mother. He find out this horrible truth and doesn’t believe it at first but eventually