Oedipus and Humanity's Flaw

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…message of Oedipus the Wreck. The message is that everyone has flaws, and if not dealt with, these flaws could be your own downfall. Laius, Jacosta and Oedipus all could have changed fate, but they instead played the roles made for them. By doing so they let their own flaws become their undoing. Their greatest enemy was not the gods, nor man or nature, but themselves. And this is the tragedy of the human race.