... Oedipus away as a baby to be killed. However, it is well known in Greek mythology that you can never change or dodge fate. This feature of the play is unlike a detective story in the fact that the murderer has no choice of his actions as they have already been chosen and cannot be changed. Also, the murderer already knows of what he is going to do but goes out of his own way in order to change his fate. Therefore there is no act of free will and it is not his choice but the choice of the Gods. Therefore the murderer is strangely innocent. This completely defies the object if being a detective story. The dramatic irony is incorporated into the text to emphasize Oedipus's and Jocasta's disloyalty towards the Gods. To demonstrate their unfaithfulness, Oedipus and Jocasta continually reject the prophesises that the oracles deliver. As Oedipus ...

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