Oedipus talks with Jocasta about him killing Laius. A messenger comes into the palace to give Jocasta and Oedipus great new. This is ironic because its not great news at all to Jocasta and Oedipus. "The people there, they want to make your Oedipus king of Corinth, so they're saying now." Jocasta asks the messenger if king Polybus is still in power. The messenger responds "No more. Death has got him in the tomb." When Jocasta tells Oedipus he is not thrilled. "Oedipus feared for years, he fled him not to kill him-and now he's dead, quite by chance, a normal, natural death, not murdered by his son." The reason why he never bothered to go to Corinth was because Apollos prophecy said Oedipus would kill his father. This is an example of dramatic irony because Oedipus does not know that he already killed his birth father.
Oedipus fears to go to Corinth also because Apollos prophecy said that Oedipus would sleep in the same bed with his mother and marry her. This is also another example of dramatic irony because he is already slept with his birth mother and had babies with her. Oedipus tells Jocasta that he must fear his mother's bed which he already slept in. Oedipus explains to the messenger "But still, to see one's parents and look into their eyes is the greatest joy I know." This is dramatic irony because Oedipus wasn't to pleasant to see his birth father. This whole conversation between Oedipus, the messenger and Jocasta makes the reader feel so frustrated because Oedipus nor Jocasta knows what really happened.
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