Analysing the Story: Last Part

This is the last part where the word tragedy is the focal point in the story is portrayed...

"Jocasta urges Oedipus not to look into the past any further, but he stubbornly ignores her. Oedipus goes on to question a messenger and a shepherd, both of whom have information about how Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and adopted by a new family. In a moment of insight, Jocasta realizes that she is Oedipus’s mother and that Laius was his father. Horrified at what has happened, she kills herself. Shortly thereafter, Oedipus, too, realizes that he was Laius’s murder and that he’s been married to (and having children with) his mother. In horror and despair, he gouges his eyes out and is exiled from Thebes."

Analysis:

Jocasta urges quite energetically that Oedipus drop the issue before he discovers more than he bargained for. Oedipus says, "No," and insists on his talking to the shepherd.
Jocasta makes reference to seeing Oedipus for the last time and runs off wailing.
Oedipus assumes she’s ashamed of his low birth (since as an infant he was found in some rather raggedy swaddling clothes) and vows to set things right.
The old shepherd shows up.

Oedipus questions the old shepherd. Like Teiresias, this guy refuses to speak. Oedipus has his servants twist the old man’s arms to try to force him to talk.
The man folds like a bad poker hand, revealing that Jocasta was the mother of the child that he discovered and gave to the messenger. Jocasta wanted the child taken away because it had been prophesized that the boy would kill his father and sleep with his mother.

FINALLY, Oedipus pieces things together and realizes that Jocasta is his mother. As predicted by the prophecy, he has slept with his mother and killed his father.
Oedipus runs out, saying, quite eloquently, "O, O, O."
The Chorus, expectedly, laments the tragedy.

Another messenger arrives and announces that Jocasta, disgusted with herself for sleeping with her own son, has hung herself. She’s dead. Oedipus finds that he has lost both his wife and mother. He very dramatically rushes to her dead body, tears the broaches from her dress (which have sharp, phallic pins on them) and gouges out his eyes.

Oedipus staggers outside all bloody and gross.
The Chorus is startled (understatement of the year) and feels bad for him (understatement of the century). Oedipus explains that he gouged his eyes out because there was no longer anything pleasant for him to see. We’re just amazed that the man can manage to stand around and explain things at this point.

Oedipus asks the Chorus to help send him out of Thebes or kill him. He wishes he had died as a child. Creon enters and Oedipus asks to be sent away. Oedipus feels it is his fate to stay alive so that he can suffer. Oedipus asks Creon to take care of his daughters, but not his sons because they can take care of themselves.

Creon leads Oedipus out of the room while Oedipus continues to beg for his exile.

Yehey!!! we finished understanding and dissecting the story!!! so what do you think about the last part???