"I speak of course as a stranger to the story/and stranger to the crime/...who killed Laius son of Labdacus?"(14)
This quote portrays Oedipus asking the people of Thebes to help in finding the killer of Laius. The irony of what he's saying is that he claims that he's a "stranger to the story and crime" when he knows more about it than anyone else. He was the one that killed Laius! He murdered him and now it's almost like he's asking the people to find him! It's ridiculous. Oedipus is putting himself deeper and deeper into a hole. If he would just let things go then he would have never found out the truth, which maybe would have been better for him. His pride would not subside and it needs to before it gets too late....
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