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. …