"Ask away, but don't expect to find a murderer."
Ofcourse as we read this we notice the great irony in Oedipus say, not only is he a murderer but he is the murderer of his own father. And many hints are thrown at him but he is too bussy looking to blame someone else that he does not see all the acts point to him. In that scene he is accusing Creon his "brother in law" who is really his brother, of plotting againts his own death. But ofcourse someone who is familiar with the story such as a greek audience would even laugh to themselves as those words come out of Oedipus mouth, ofcourse he is a killer and the only one to blame. Sophocles used those words to create irony in the sense of Oedipus being so sure of not being a killer, but ofcourse as we read this we know he is infact a killer, the killer.
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